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| author | Luke Leighton <lkcl@samba.org> | 1997-10-25 18:13:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Luke Leighton <lkcl@samba.org> | 1997-10-25 18:13:04 +0000 |
| commit | afa790f14cc11b7be110d767e2395a819cf8ceb4 (patch) | |
| tree | dfc404efabbe2632858a20f1a3bf2c638e9e7249 | |
| parent | 48c4eec98defc2ade02fe7be1539367a53cbee98 (diff) | |
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updated to describe smbclient work recently done.
| -rw-r--r-- | WHATSNEW.txt | 29 |
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 2733d406a1a..ab0de21d680 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -47,12 +47,11 @@ Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias. 2). Experimental Primary Domain controller code. ------------------------------------------------ -Samba now contains a *VERY* experimental +Samba now contains a *VERY* experimental client and server implementation of part of the Windows NT 4.x Domain Controller specification, as published by Paul Ashton (now a Samba Team -member). It also contains work-in-progress in -implementing the client-side. +member). This code is not enabled in the Makefile by default, and to work on this code you must read the file : @@ -60,9 +59,9 @@ and to work on this code you must read the file : docs/NTDOMAIN.txt Please note that as this code is not complete, -it is being made available as part of this -release to allow interested parties to contribute -and help the Samba Team in documenting and implementing +it is being made available as part of this release +to allow interested parties to contribute and help +the Samba Team in documenting and implementing this important feature. Please do not expect to be able to replace your @@ -113,10 +112,28 @@ The WINS client and WINS server capabilities in nmbd are also being restructured, to make it easier to understand and maintain. +Samba supports the NT 4.0 Domain Authentication Protocol +to a degree sufficient to download Profiles to an NT +Workstation ("Welcome to the SAMBA Domain"). + +There is also code in smbclient to generate the same +requests as an NT Workstation would when doing an NT +Domain Logon. This has only been tested against a Samba +"Experimental" PDC so far. + Some of the new parameters for NT Domain Logons and Profile support are now also used by the Win95 Domain Logons and Profile support. +The Automount code has been slightly reshuffled, such +that the home directory (and profile location) can be +specified by \\%N\homes and \\%N\homes\profiles +respectively, which are the defaults for these values. +If -DAUTOMOUNT is enabled, then %N is the server +component of the user's NIS auto.home entry. Obviously, +you will need to be running Samba on the user's home +server as well as the one they just logged in on. + New parameters in smb.conf. --------------------------- |