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@@ -1,43 +1,43 @@ -Copyright (C) 1997-1999 - 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 release 2.0.4 is called the "NT Security update". +The current Samba release 2.2 is the Windows 2000 update. It correctly implements the Windows NT specific SMB calls, -and will operate correctly as a client in a Windows NT -Domain environment. +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. -In addition, the first implementation of the Web-based GUI -management tool ships with 2.0.0, thus fullfilling some of -the commitments made in the 1.9.18 release Roadmap document. +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). -Some work has been done on ensuring compatibility with -Windows NT 5.0 (now Windows 2000 :-) although this is -a somewhat (slowly) moving target. +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. + +Windows 2000 is now the base tested client for Samba. All work +is verified against Windows 2000 clients. The following development objectives for future releases are in place: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -2.0.x - "NT Security update" - Allowing Windows NT Clients to - manipulate file security and ownership using native tools. - -Note that the "NT Security update" part of the Roadmap has been -achieved with the Samba 2.0.4 release. - -2.0.xx - "Thin Server" mode, allowing a Samba server to be - inserted into a network with no UNIX setup required. - Some management capabilities for Samba using native NT tools. - Provision of command-line equivalents to native NT tools. +2.2.x - Integration with native Windows server management tools, + including user account management and share management. -2.X - "Domain Controller" - able to serve as a Windows NT PDC. +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/2000) update releases, ensuring that Samba will work +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 |