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'Samba4 TP5' presents you with a snapshot into Samba4's ongoing
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development, as we move towards our first alpha releases. This Technology
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Preview (TP) is snapshot of Samba4's development, as at June 2007.
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In the time since TP4 was released in January 2007, Samba has
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continued to evolve, but you may particularly notice these areas:
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Work has continued on SWAT, the the libnet API behind it. These we
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hope will grow into a full web-based management solution for both
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local and remote Samba and windows servers.
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The DRSUAPI research effort has largely concluded, and an initial
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implementation of AD replication is present, included in torture
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test-cases. This includes the decryption of the AD passwords, which
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were specially and separately encrypted. This should be recognised
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as vital milestone.
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Likewise, the LDAP Backend project has moved from a research
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implementation into something that can be easily deployed outside
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the test infrastructure.
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Testing has been an area of great work, with renewed vigour to
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increase our test coverage over the past few months. In doing so,
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we now demonstrate PKINIT and many other aspects of kerberos, as
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well as command-line authentication handling in our testsuite.
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The testsuite infrastructure has been rewritten in perl and
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extended, to setup multiple environments: allowing testing of the
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domain member, as well as the domain controller, roles. Samba4's
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initial implementation of winbind has been revived, to fill in these
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tests.
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In clustering, work on CTDB (an implementation of a clustered Samba)
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has moved ahead very well, but the current code has not
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been merged into Samba4 in time for this release.
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To support better management, we have investigated group policy
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support, and include the infrastructure required. Unfortunately
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without MMC write support, you will need to place the polices into
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the directory by hand.
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As we move forward, we have many of the features we feel are required
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for a Samba4 Alpha. Similarly, we know enough about the data
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formats (particularly those that are encrypted) to be confident that
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we won't need to change the LDB format. Our plan is to publish a
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Samba4 alpha in the next few months.
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These are just some of the highlights of the work done in the past few
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months. More details can be found in our SVN history.
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