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r26501: Merge kblin's updated README
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@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
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this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
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by Windows 2000 and above.
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While we welcome your interest in Samba 4, we don't want you to run your network with it quite yet. Please note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file,
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which aims to document what should and should not work.
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While we welcome your interest in Samba 4, we don't want you to run your
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network with it quite yet. Please note the WARNINGS below, and the
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STATUS file, which aims to document what should and should not work.
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With 4 years of development under our belt since Tridge first proposed
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a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer for Samba3 (a project which
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@ -17,12 +18,12 @@ support.
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WARNINGS
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========
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Samba4 TP is currently a pre-alpha technology. That is more a
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reference to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need
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than a statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad
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deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to
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Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features
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you may have relied on simply are not there yet.
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Samba4 is currently at alpha stage. That is more a reference to
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Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a statement
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of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad deployment yet. If
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you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to Samba4, you would find
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many things work, but that other key features you may have relied on
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simply are not there yet.
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For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active
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Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller: (This is
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@ -98,10 +99,10 @@ CHANGES
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Those familiar with Samba 3 can find a list of user-visible changes
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since that release series in the NEWS file.
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- An optional password is no longer supported as the second argument to
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- An optional password is no longer supported as the second argument to
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smbclient.
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- The default location of smb.conf in non-FHS builds has changed from the
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- The default location of smb.conf in non-FHS builds has changed from the
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PREFIX/lib directory to the PREFIX/etc directory.
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KNOWN ISSUES
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@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
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- Standalone server and domain member roles are not currently
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supported. While we have much of the infrastructure required, we
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have not collected these pieces together.
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have not collected these pieces together.
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- There is no printing support in the current release.
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