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WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17alpha5 - July 31st 1997.
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Last Alpha before full release.
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It is our intention that 1.9.17alpha5 be the last alpha
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before the full 1.9.17 release. If you are concerned that
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Samba 1.9.17 compile cleanly out of the box on your platform
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please try 1.9.17alpha5 and make sure it compiles for your
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particular platform. Please let samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
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know if you have problems.
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The differences between 1.9.17alpha4 and 1.9.17alpha5 are
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mainly tidying code to ensure portability over different
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platforms (although some new code has been added).
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Thanks to Cisco for the new netbios alias code support.
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Improved browsing support.
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Samba now should support propagation of browse lists
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across subnets correctly. Look in the file docs/BROWSING.txt
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as it has been largely re-written to explain how to do this.
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*IMPORTANT* All Samba servers acting as local/domain master
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browsers must be running 1.9.17alpha3 (or later).
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Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new
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code on their corporate network.
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Improved share mode handling
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The handling of share modes has been completely rewritten.
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Samba can now run agressive PC Benchmarks (Ziff-Davis
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NetBench) correctly with many hundreds of concurrent PC's.
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The confidence level on share mode handling in Samba
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is now much higher than it was previously. PC database
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packages should be much safer when run against a
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Samba share. Thanks to Silicon Graphics for testing
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this code for us.
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If at all possible compile Samba to use the new share
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mode handling with shared memory (set the flags
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FAST_SHARE_MODES in the Makefile). This will be *much* faster
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than old file-based share modes. FAST_SHARE_MODES have
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been turned on by default on the following platforms in
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the Makefile :
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Linux
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Solaris
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BSDI
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IRIX 5.x.x
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FreeBSD
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Updated smb.conf documentation
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All options are now documented we believe.
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Many bugfixes and improvements
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From around the 'net around the world. Many
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thanks to everyone who contributed.
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Some of the changes since alpha4 are:
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*** Alias names for Samba servers.
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*** Fixes for smbtar.
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*** New "follow symlinks" option can prevent any
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symlink following for security reasons.
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*** Authentication for Kerberos 5 clients (note that
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this is not the same as the Kerberos 5 Microsoft
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will be using, that has not yet been documented).
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*** smbpasswd can now add users to the smbpasswd file.
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*** Hex dump style of debug packets.
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Remaining known issues with cross-subnet browsing.
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When nmbd is acting as a WINS server it doesn't handle
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de-registering of members of a WORKGROUP<1e> name correctly.
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The first machine to de-register will remove the name. This
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should be fixed in a later release when group names are
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handled correctly in the WINS code.
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Remember - this is new code so there may be
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bugs or problems.
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As always, all bugs are our responsibility -
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please report them to :
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samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
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Regards,
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The Samba Team.
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