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Update WHATSNEW4 to add information related to samba_backup

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What's new in Samba 4 alpha13
What's new in Samba 4 alpha14
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Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
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this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
by Windows 2000 and above.
Samba4 alpha13 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007. Since this file has referred to alpha 12
for a while before any release happened and since Debian packages
have been published that presumed the existance of a alpha12 release
we are skipping alpha12 and going straight to alpha13.
Samba4 alpha14 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007.
WARNINGS
========
Samba4 alpha13 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
Samba4 alpha14 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a
statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad
deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to
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We are aiming for Samba 4 to be powerful frontend to large
directories.
CHANGES SINCE alpha11
CHANGES SINCE alpha13
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We have continued our commitment to provide a full DRS implementation for our
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Beside this the release includes (among a lot of other things):
* a new build system based on WAF
Andrew Tridgell (tridge) invested much time to bring this up. He achieved a
marvellous work which brings us faster building, easier management and smaller
binaries.
* enhancements in Samba4 winbind to provide a fairly good implementation of the
most important functions needed by "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind"
This two components allow a user/group mapping for Windows accounts on UNIX and
UNIX-like systems. Therefore also these accounts can be used to connect to
services as "ssh", "login", "Xsession" and so on.
More informations available at http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
and for winbind in general, "libnss_winbind" and "pam_winbind" in the Samba 3.X
documentation.
* server side NT ACLs manipulation
These can now also be set on the command line directly on the server. See
"net acl" for further informations.
* dynamic DNS updates
Up-to-date DNS entries are essential for Active Directory deployments. As for
the moment Samba4 isn't yet capable to interoperate with Microsofts AD DNS
server (regarding RPCs, ADs zone entries...) a kind of update script has been
developed. It also permits the update of the "grant" and "resource" lists.
* registry improvements
The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was achieved by the
new torture tests written by gd and some additional testing against Windows
("regedit" - Windows Registry Editor and "regedt32" - Windows NT Registry Editor).
Also some real bugs were fixed.
* new Kerberos HEIMDAL release
Andrew Bartlett (abartlet) imported a new release with various bugfixes
* DCE/RPC code unification work
Stefan Metzmacher (metze) started his work to unify these codebases between s3
and s4
* And much more
We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of our
program.
* a script for backuping production provision
Although still in development, samba4 is already used in a couple of production sites
and such kind of use case is intensifying. This script is intendended for administrators
to allow them to make a periodic backup of the provision in case of problem.
CHANGES
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and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
- The DRS replication code often fails, and is very new
- The DRS replication code fails, and is very new
- Users upgrading existing databases to Samba4 should carefully
consult upgrading-samba4.txt. We have made a number of changes in