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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 91225e2cefa..00000000000 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,208 +0,0 @@ - WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha11 Nov 2nd 1997 - ======================================= - -This is NOT a production release of Samba code. -For production servers please run Samba 1.9.17p4 -or later releases in the 1.9.17 series. - -This release contains some experimental features and -changes and is being made available so people can -test and provide feedback and patches for ongoing -Samba development. - -Please note that only the Domain controller code -is truly experimental. The other changes have -been extensively tested and are of the same -quality as normal Samba alpha releases. The -Domain controller code is disabled in the Makefile -by default and is being made available to Samba -programmers in the interests of advancing a -public implementation of this important protocol. - -This release contains three major changes to the -1.9.17 series and much re-written code. - - -The main changes are : - -1). Oplock support now operational. ------------------------------------ - -Samba now supports 'exclusive' and 'batch' oplocks. -These are an advanced networked file system feature -that allows clients to obtain a exclusive use of a -file. This allows a client to cache any changes it -makes locally, and greatly improves performance. - -Windows NT has this feature and prior to this -release this was one of the reasons Windows NT -could be faster in some situations. - -The oplock code in Samba has been extensively -tested and is believed to be completely stable. - -Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias. - - -2). Experimental Primary Domain controller code. ------------------------------------------------- - -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). - -This code is not enabled in the Makefile by default, -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 -this important feature. - -Please do not expect to be able to replace your -NT Domain Controllers with Samba until this code -is finished, tested and an announcement is made. - -At present the Domain Controller code is for -programmers and people interested in Microsoft -protocols only. - - -3). New Internationalization support. -------------------------------------- - -With this release Samba no longer needs to be -separately compiled for Japanese (Kanji) support, -the same binary will serve both Kanji and non-Kanji -clients. - -A new method of dynamically loading client code pages -has been added to allow the case insensitivity to -be done dependent on the code page of the client. - -Note that Samba still will only handle one client -code page at a time. This will be fixed when -Samba is fully UNICODE enabled. - -Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage -for details on adding additional client code page -support. - - -Changed code. -------------- - -Samba no longer needs the libdes library to support -encrypted passwords. Samba now contains a restricted -version of DES that can only be used for authentication -purposes (to comply with the USA export encryption -regulations and to allow USA Mirror sites to carry -Samba source code). The 'encrypt passwords' parameter -may now be used without recompiling. - -Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured -to support the oplock and Domain controller changes. - -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 3.51 and 4.0 Domain Authentication -Protocol to a degree sufficient to download Profiles to an -NT 3.51 or 4.0 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. - -The RPC Domain code has been moved into a separate directory -rpc_pipe/, and a GLPL License issued specifically for code -in this directory. This is so that people can use this -code in other projects. - -New workstation accounts are added to the smbpasswd file, -when a user first logs in from that workstation. The -default machine password is used. NTDOMAIN.txt has been -updated to reflect this (you used to have to add workstation -accounts manually). - -The "domain hosts allow/deny" parameters have been added -to control access to the domain from specific workstations. - - -New parameters in smb.conf. ---------------------------- - -New Global parameters. ----------------------- - -Documented in the smb.conf man pages : - - "bind interfaces only" - "username level" - - "domain hosts allow" - "domain hosts deny" - - "domain sid" - "domain groups" - - "logon drive" - "logon home" - - -Not yet documented in the smb.conf man page, please -read docs/NTDOMAIN.txt or examine the source code for -information on the next parameters : - - "domain other sids" - "domain admin users" - "domain guest users" - - -New Share level parameters. ---------------------------- - -Documented in the smb.con man pages : - - "delete veto files" - "oplocks" - - -Reporting bugs. ---------------- - -If you have problems, or think you have found a -bug please email a report to : - - samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au - -Please state the version number of Samba that -you are running, and *full details* of the steps -we need to reproduce the problem. - -As always, all bugs are our responsibility. - -Regards, - - The Samba Team. - |