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What's new in Samba 4 alpha7
What's new in Samba 4 alpha8
============================
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 alpha7 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
Samba4 alpha8 follows on from the alpha release series we have been
publishing since September 2007
WARNINGS
========
Samba4 alpha7 is not a final Samba release. That is more a reference
Samba4 alpha8 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 alpha6
CHANGES SINCE alpha7
=====================
In the time since Samba4 alpha6 was released in Janurary 2009, Samba has
In the time since Samba4 alpha7 was released in Feburary 2009, Samba has
continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas
(in no particular order):
Multi Master Replication (MMR) configuration can now be generated
for the OpenLDAP-Backend.
Samba4 now includes the full AD schema, as used in Microsoft Windows 2008
OpenLDAP-Online-Configuration (olc) can now be generated for the
OpenLDAP-Backend. (OpenLDAP-Versions >=2.4.15 required).
LDB (the core Samba4 database library) now handles large number of
users and groups much more efficiently
Support for Windows 7 beta as a member of the Samba4 domain
Issues with the nesting of LDB transactions have been fixed
A number of internal libraries (tevent, auth in particular has been
updated for easier use outside Samba4
spoolss IDL updates to bring Samba3 to use PIDL code, and to merge
the corrected IDL back into Samba4
Fixes to allow use of C++ compilers and to increase portability
Fixed TLS (SSL) support with modern versions of GnuTLS
These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past
month. More details can be found in our GIT history.
These are just some of the user-visible highlights of the work done in
the past few months. More details of the work done 'under the hood'
can be found in our GIT history.
CHANGES
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and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
with this problem).
- Samba4 alpha7 is currently only portable to recent Linux
distributions. Work to return support for other Unix varients is
expected during the next alpha cycles
RUNNING Samba4
==============