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@@ -1,28 +1,43 @@ -Copyright (C) 1997-2003 Samba-Team +Copyright (C) 1997-2001 - Samba-Team The Samba-Team are committed to an aggressive program to deliver quality controlled software to a well defined roadmap. -The current Samba Beta series of Samba 3.0.0 is called the "Domain Integration" -release. +The current Samba release 2.2 is the Windows 2000 update. -The following development objectives for future releases -are in progress: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -Samba-3.0.0 The Domain Integration Release. +It correctly implements the Windows NT specific SMB calls, +and will operate correctly as a client in a Windows NT and +Windows 2000 Domain environment. In addition, preliminary +support for Windows NT and Windows 2000 Domain Control has +been implemented, although more remains to be done. + +Samba 2.2 can now support share level security changes from +Windows NT/2000 server manager tools, and can integrate fully +into a Windows NT/2000 Domain with no local users when using +winbind (see the white paper on the Samba site). + +This is also the first official release supporting the Samba-VFS +layer, allowing non-disk resources such as databases to be +exported to Windows clients as disk resources. More work will +be done on this in the 2.2.x series. -Samba-3.0.x Improvements in Management and Migration tools, & - general code stabilization work. +Windows 2000 is now the base tested client for Samba. All work +is verified against Windows 2000 clients. -Samba-3.x.x Requirements are currently under discussion. +The following development objectives for future releases +are in place: + +---------------------------------------------------------------------------- +2.2.x - Integration with native Windows server management tools, + including user account management and share management. -Samba-4 Danger Will Robinson, a big code clean up with major - system redesign. More will be announced as this work - starts to take shape. +3.0 - "Domain Controller" - able to serve as a Windows NT PDC. + Unicode on the wire support. +X.XX - "Full Domain Integration" - allowing both PDC and BDC modes. -Note that it is a given that the Samba-Team will continue to track -Windows (NT/200x) update releases, ensuring that Samba will work +Note that it is a given that the Samba Team will continue to track +Windows (2000/XP) update releases, ensuring that Samba will work well with whatever "Beta" releases Redmond throws our way :-). You may also note that the release numbers get fuzzier the |