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WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.0.0 beta1
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This is a MAJOR new release of Samba, the UNIX based SMB/CIFS file
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and print server for Windows systems.
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There have been many changes in Samba since the last major release,
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1.9.18. These have mainly been in the areas of performance and
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SMB protocol correctness. In addition, a Web based GUI interface
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for configuring Samba has been added.
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In addition, Samba has been re-written to help portability to
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other POSIX-based systems, based on the GNU autoconf tool.
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Major changes in Samba 2.0
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There are many major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here are
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some of them:
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1). Speed
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---------
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Samba has been benchmarked on high-end UNIX hardware as out-performing
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all other SMB/CIFS servers using the Ziff-Davis NetBench benchmark.
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Many changes to the code to optimise high-end performance have been made.
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2). Correctness
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---------------
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Samba now supports the Windows NT specific SMB requests. This
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means that on platforms that are capable Samba now presents a
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64 bit view of the filesystem to Windows NT clients and is
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capable of handling very large files.
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3). Portability
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Samba is now self-configuring using GNU autoconf, removing
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the need for people installing Samba to have to hand configure
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Makefiles, as was needed in previous versions.
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You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then "make". See
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docs/textdocs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt for details.
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4). Web based GUI configuration
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-------------------------------
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Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
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the swat man page for details on how to set it up.
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5). Cross protocol data integrity
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An open function interface has been defined to allow
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"opportunistic locks" (oplocks for short) granted by Samba
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to be seen by other UNIX processes. This allows complete
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cross protocol (NFS and SMB) data integrety using Samba
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with platforms that support this feature.
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6). Domain client capability
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Samba is now capable of using a Windows NT PDC for user
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authentication in exactly the same way that a Windows NT
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workstation does, i.e. it can be a member of a Domain. See
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docs/textdocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.txt for details.
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7). Documentation Updates
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All the reference parts of the Samba documentation (the
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manual pages) have been updated and converted to a document
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format that allows automatic generation of HTML, SGML, and
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text formats. These documents now ship as standard in HTML
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and manpage format.
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NOTE - Some important option defaults changed
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---------------------------------------------
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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
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level security rather than share level security.
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This (incompatible) change was made to ease new Samba installs
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as user level security is easier to use for Windows 95/98 and
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Windows NT clients.
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********IMPORTANT NOTE****************
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If you have no "security=" line in the [global] section of
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your current smb.conf and you update to Samba 2.0 you will
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need to add the line :
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security=share
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to get exactly the same behaviour with Samba 2.0 as you
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did with previous versions of Samba.
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********END IMPORTANT NOTE*************
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In addition, Samba now defaults to case sensitivity options that
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match a Windows NT server precisely, that is, case insensitive
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but case preserving.
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NOTE - Primary Domain Controller Functionality
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This version of Samba contains code that correctly implements
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the undocumented Primary Domain Controller authentication
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protocols. However, there is much more to being a Primary
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Domain Controller than serving Windows NT logon requests.
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A useful version of a Primary Domain Controller contains
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many remote procedure calls to do things like enumerate users,
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groups, and security information, only some of which Samba currently
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implements. For this reason we have chosen not to advertise
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and actively support Primary Domain Controller functionality
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with this release.
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This work is being done in the CVS (developer) versions of Samba,
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development of which continues at a fast pace. If you are
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interested in participating in or helping with this development
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please join the Samba-NTDOM mailing list. Details on joining
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are available at :
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http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/
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Details on obtaining CVS (developer) versions of Samba
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are available at:
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http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html
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=====================================================================
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If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email
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a report to :
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samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
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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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