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This is version 1.9.18 of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
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This is version 2.0.0alphaX of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
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server for unix and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by
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the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
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WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18 - January 7th 1998.
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=======================================
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WHATS NEW IN 2.0.0 ALPHA SERIES
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===============================
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This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the
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version that all production Samba servers should be running
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for all current bug-fixes.
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This is an alpha release of Samba. Releases in this series are done
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automatically every week based on the latest code in the Samba CVS
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tree.
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This release contains several major changes and much re-written
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code.
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THIS RELEASE IS NOT PRODUCTION QUALITY. IT MAY NOT EVEN COMPILE.
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The main changes are :
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If you use this release then be aware of the following:
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1). Oplock support now operational.
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-----------------------------------
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- only use these releases if you can't use CVS for some
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reason. Getting the code via anonymous cvs is preferable. See
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http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html
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Samba now supports 'exclusive' and 'batch' oplocks.
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These are an advanced networked file system feature
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that allows clients to obtain a exclusive use of a
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file. This allows a client to cache any changes it
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makes locally, and greatly improves performance.
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- don't use this code if you are not an experienced programmer. We are
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doing these releases so that users who cannot access the CVS tree
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directly for some reason can report/fix bugs. If you find bugs in
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this release and you want to help fix them then please join the
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samba-technical mailing list (see http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/)
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and discuss it there.
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Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
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release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
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could be faster in some situations. Samba has
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now been benchmarked as out performing Windows
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NT on equivalently priced hardware.
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- the docs are not uptodate. If you find documentation errors then
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please send patches to fix them. Out of date documentation is one of
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the main things holding back a Samba 2.0 release.
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The oplock code in Samba has been extensively
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tested and is believed to be completely stable.
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Major changes in Samba 2.0
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--------------------------
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Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias.
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There have been several major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here
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are some of them:
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2). NetBIOS name daemon re-written.
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-----------------------------------
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1). autoconf
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------------
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The old nmbd that has caused some users problems
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has now been completely re-written and now is
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much easier to maintain and add changes to.
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You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then make. See
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docs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt
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Changes include support for multi-homed hosts
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in the same way as an NT Server with multiple
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IP interfaces behaves (registers with the WINS
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server as a multi-homed name type), and also
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support for multi-homed name registration in
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the Samba WINS server. Another added feature
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is robustness in the face of WINS server failure,
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nmbd will now keep trying to contact the WINS
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server until it is successful, in the same
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way as an NT Server.
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2) domain control
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-----------------
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Also in this release is an implementation
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of the Lanman announce protocol used by
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OS/2 clients. Thanks to Jacco de Leeuw for
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this code.
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Samba can now (mostly) act as a NT primary domain controller and
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domain logon server. Unfortunately this is largely undocumented at the
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moment, but to get you started you want smb.conf entries like this:
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3). New Internationalization support.
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domain controller = Yes
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domain logons = Yes
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preferred master = Yes
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domain master = Yes
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With this release Samba no longer needs to be
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separately compiled for Japanese (Kanji) support,
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the same binary will serve both Kanji and non-Kanji
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clients.
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[netlogon]
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path = /data/netlogon
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read only = No
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A new method of dynamically loading client code pages
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has been added to allow the case insensitivity to
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be done dependent on the code page of the client.
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further documentation on this still needs to be written :)
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Note that Samba still will only handle one client
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code page at a time. This will be fixed when
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Samba is fully UNICODE enabled.
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3) option defaults changed
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--------------------------
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Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage
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for details on adding additional client code page
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support.
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several parameters have changed their default values. The most
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important of these is that the default security mode is now user level
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security rather than share level security.
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4). New Printing support.
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-------------------------
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4) web based GUI configuration
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An implementation of the Windows 95 automatic printer
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driver installation has been added to smbd. To use this
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new feature please read the document:
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docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt
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Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau, and also Herb Lewis
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of Silicon Graphics for this new code.
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Printer support on System V systems (notably Solaris)
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has been improved with the addition of code generously
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donated by Norm Jacobs of Sun Microsystems. Sun have
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also made a Solaris SPARC workstation available to the
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Samba Team to aid in their porting efforts.
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Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
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swat/README for how to set it up.
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Changed code.
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Samba no longer needs the libdes library to support
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encrypted passwords. Samba now contains a restricted
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version of DES that can only be used for authentication
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purposes (to comply with the USA export encryption
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regulations and to allow USA Mirror sites to carry
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Samba source code). The 'encrypt passwords' parameter
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may now be used without recompiling.
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Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
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to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
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Samba now contains an implementation of share modes
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using System V shared memory as well as the mmap()
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based code. This was done to allow the 'FAST_SHARE_MODES'
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to be used on more systems (especially HPUX 9.x) that
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have System V shared memory, but not the mmap() call.
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The System V shared memory code is used by default on
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many systems as it has benchmarked as faster on many
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systems.
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The Automount code has been slightly re-shuffled, such
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that the home directory (and profile location) can be
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specified by \\%N\homes and \\%N\homes\profiles
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respectively, which are the defaults for these values.
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If -DAUTOMOUNT is enabled, then %N is the server
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component of the user's NIS auto.home entry. Obviously,
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you will need to be running Samba on the user's home
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server as well as the one they just logged in on.
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The RPC Domain code has been moved into a separate directory
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rpc_pipe/, and a LGPL License issued specifically for code
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in this directory. This is so that people can use this
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code in other projects.
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Missing feature.
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----------------
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One feature that we wanted to get into this release
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that was not possible due to the re-write of the nmbd
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code was the scalability features in the Samba WINS server.
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This feature is now tentatively scheduled for the next
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release (1.9.19). Apologies to anyone who was hoping
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for this feature to be included. The nmbd re-write
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will make it much easier to add such things in future.
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New parameters in smb.conf.
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New Global parameters.
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Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
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"bind interfaces only"
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"lm announce"
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"lm interval"
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"logon drive"
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"logon home"
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"min wins ttl"
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"max wins ttl"
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"username level"
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New Share level parameters.
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---------------------------
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Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
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"delete veto files"
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"oplocks"
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Nascent web interface for configuration.
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----------------------------------------
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source/wsmbconf.c is a cgi-bin program for editing smb.conf. It can
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also be run standalone. This is in a very early stage of development.
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Debugging support.
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smbd and nmbd will now modify their debug log level when
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they receive a USR1 signal (increase debug level by one)
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and USR2 signal (decrease debug level by one). This has
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been added to aid administrators track down faults that
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only occur after long periods of time, or transiently.
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Reporting bugs.
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---------------
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If you have problems, or think you have found a
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bug please email a report to :
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samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
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Please state the version number of Samba that
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you are running, and *full details* of the steps
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we need to reproduce the problem.
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As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
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Regards,
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The Samba Team.
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There have been lots of other changes as well. We'll add them here as
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we remember them :)
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