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WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha0
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This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable
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release. Use at your own risk.
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The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
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new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We are
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planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very
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shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To
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reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many
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poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and
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hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing.
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Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There
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is a lot more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have
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done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a
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stable release in a reasonable time frame.
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This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there
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are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the
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new options and features in 3.0.
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Major new features:
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- Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
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as a member server and authenticate users using
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LDAP/kerberos. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very
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rough guide on how to set this up.
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- Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and
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interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
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and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix
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charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not
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yet documented.
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- New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
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been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
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but the new auth system is also very configurable. Not documented
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yet.
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- new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
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completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
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persistantly. This needs lots of testing.
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- new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
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somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
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to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
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subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
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implemented.
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- Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
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improves error handling a lot.
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- better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
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clients has improved greatly.
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Plus lots of other changes!
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Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop
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you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic
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file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure
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that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more
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alpha releases we will start to document the new features.
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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
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joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
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If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
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feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
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the problem then you will probably be ignored.
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