WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 beta2
July 1 2003
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This is the second beta release of Samba 3.0.0. This is a
non-production release intended for testing purposes. Use
at your own risk.
The purpose of this beta release is to get wider testing of the major
new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have
officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are
concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final
Samba 3.0 release we need as many people as possible to start testing
these beta releases, and to provide high quality feedback on what
needs fixing.
Samba 3.0 is feature complete. However there is still some final
work to be done on certain pieces of functionality. Please refer to
the section on "Known Issues" for more details.
Major new features:
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1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to
to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate
users using LDAP/Kerberos.
2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and
internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
and UNICODE character sets.
3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
but the new auth system is also very configurable.
4) New filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
persistently. This needs lots of testing.
5) A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to
the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace
numerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands
in "net".
6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
improves error handling a lot.
7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing
printer attributes in active directory.
8) New loadable RPC modules.
9) New dual-daemon winbindd support (-B) for better performance.
10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba
domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs.
11) Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
domain controllers.
12) Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using
an LDAP directory for storing SID to uid/gid mappings.
13) Major updates to the Samba documentation tree.
Plus lots of other improvements!
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