1 WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX
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6 - fixed a silly tdb bug in alpha2 that affected internal databases
10 - we no longer use cyrus-sasl for LDAP SASL/gssapi. This makes our ADS
11 code much more robust.
12 - winbindd cache code rewritten to be much more efficient. It also
13 copes much better with server outages.
14 - jfm implemented full group mapping and smb.conf option 'domain admin
15 group' is now gone. Consult the GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt to know how
16 to gain back administrator rights.
18 - numerous small bugfixes
22 - winbindd now uses LDAP and works correctly with an ADS server in
24 - XFS quotas code on Linux
25 - group mapping code from JFM
26 - "net rpc join" command replaces smbpasswd -j
27 - fixed winbind initgroups
31 This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable
32 release. Use at your own risk.
34 The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
35 new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We are
36 planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very
37 shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To
38 reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many
39 poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and
40 hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing.
42 Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There
43 is a lot more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have
44 done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a
45 stable release in a reasonable time frame.
47 This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there
48 are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the
49 new options and features in 3.0.
54 - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
55 as a member server and authenticate users using
56 LDAP/kerberos. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very
57 rough guide on how to set this up.
59 - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and
60 interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
61 and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix
62 charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not
65 - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
66 been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
67 but the new auth system is also very configurable. Not documented
70 - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
71 completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
72 persistantly. This needs lots of testing.
74 - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
75 somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
76 to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
77 subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
80 - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
81 improves error handling a lot.
83 - better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
84 clients has improved greatly.
86 Plus lots of other changes!
88 Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop
89 you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic
90 file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure
91 that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more
92 alpha releases we will start to document the new features.
95 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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98 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
99 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
101 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
102 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
103 the problem then you will probably be ignored.