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nmbd default behavior (appending to logs instead of overwriting them) into
the "Major Changes" section, but added a "Minor Changes" section for the
things that wouldn't affect the running of Samba itself (eg., the splay
tree for WINS and the change to DEBUG output).
Chris -)-----
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WHATS NEW IN 2.0.0 ALPHA SERIES
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This is an alpha release of Samba. Releases in this series are done
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automatically every week based on the latest code in the Samba CVS
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tree.
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THIS RELEASE IS NOT PRODUCTION QUALITY. IT MAY NOT EVEN COMPILE.
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If you use this release then be aware of the following:
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- only use these releases if you can't use CVS for some
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reason. Getting the code via anonymous cvs is preferable. See
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http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html
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- don't use this code if you are not an experienced programmer. We are
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doing these releases so that users who cannot access the CVS tree
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directly for some reason can report/fix bugs. If you find bugs in
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this release and you want to help fix them then please join the
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samba-technical mailing list (see http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/)
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and discuss it there.
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- the docs are not uptodate. If you find documentation errors then
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please send patches to fix them. Out of date documentation is one of
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the main things holding back a Samba 2.0 release.
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Major changes in Samba 2.0
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--------------------------
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There have been several major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here
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are some of them:
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1) autoconf
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-----------
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You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then make. See
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docs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt
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2) domain control
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-----------------
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Samba can now (mostly) act as a NT primary domain controller and
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domain logon server. Unfortunately this is largely undocumented at the
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moment, but to get you started you want smb.conf entries like this:
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domain controller = Yes
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domain logons = Yes
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preferred master = Yes
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domain master = Yes
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[netlogon]
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path = /data/netlogon
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read only = No
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further documentation on this still needs to be written :)
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3) 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 level
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security rather than share level security.
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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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swat/README for how to set it up.
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5) change to nmbd default logging behavior
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------------------------------------------
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The nmbd daemon now appends to pre-existing log files by default. In
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previous releases, nmbd would overwrite old log files. Both nmbd and smbd
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now accept the '-a' and '-o' options, which mean "append" and "overwrite",
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respectively.
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Minor changes in Samba 2.0
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--------------------------
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1) timestamps on all log messages
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---------------------------------
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Both nmbd and smbd now place timestamp headers on all log messages. The
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headers include the time and the message level. On systems with compilers
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that support the necessary macros, the file & function names and the line
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number (of the call to Debug()) will also be listed.
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2) NetBIOS name server has improved database
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--------------------------------------------
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The linked list used to store NetBIOS names in the Samba "WINS" database
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has been replaced with a splay-balanced binary tree. This should improve
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speed for installations with very large WINS lists.
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There have been lots of other changes as well. We'll add them here as
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we remember them :)
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