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WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17 - August 25th 1997
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New stable release of Samba.
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This is the new stable release of Samba, superceding
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the last stable release 1.9.16p11. All users are
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encouraged to upgrade to this new release as there have
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been many improvements to the code since that time.
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See the Frequently Asked Questions (under docs/faq) for
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an explanation of how the version numbering scheme works,
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distinguishing between stable and development releases.
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Changes since 1.9.16p11.
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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 1.9.17 (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 safe when run against a Samba share.
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Thanks to Silicon Graphics for testing 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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Roving profile support.
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Roving profiles are believed to work correctly
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with Windows NT 4.x and Windows 95. Domain logons
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are fully implemented *for Windows 95 machines only*.
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Updated documentation
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All options are now documented in the smb.conf man page
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we believe. Much work has been done by Samba Team members
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to improve the quality and quantity of the Samba documentation.
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A draft new structure for documentation is being worked on: see
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docs/faq/Samba-meta-FAQ for details. This will soon be a master
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reference to all Samba documentation.
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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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Commercial thanks.
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------------------
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Thanks to Cisco for the new netbios alias code support.
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Thanks to Silicon Graphics for the help with the cross
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subnet browsing and NetBench code.
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Thanks to Whistle for funding one of the Samba Team
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members.
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Reporting bugs
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The Samba Team believes that this is a stable
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production release, but all software has bugs.
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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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Stating the version number of Samba that you
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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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