svn commit: samba-web r1048 - in trunk/history: .

Mon Oct 16 13:18:52 GMT 2006

Author: abartlet
Date: 2006-10-16 13:18:52 +0000 (Mon, 16 Oct 2006)
New Revision: 1048

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=1048

Log:
Samba4 TP3 release notes.  Rather similar the the last lot actually..

Andrew Bartlett

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   trunk/history/samba-4.0.0tp3.html


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+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
+    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+
+<head>
+<title>Samba - Release Notes Archive</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+
+   <H2>Samba 4.0.0TP3 Available for Download</H2>
+
+<p>
+<pre>
+ABOUT SAMBA 4 AND THE TECHNOLOGY PREVIEW
+========================================
+
+Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being
+developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in
+this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used
+by Windows 2000 and above.
+
+Samba 4 is currently not yet in a state where it is usable in
+production environments. Note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file,
+which aims to document what should and should not work.
+
+With 3 years of development under our belt since Tridge first proposed
+a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer for Samba3 (a project which
+eventually lead to our Active Directory efforts), it was felt that we
+should create something we could 'show off' to our users.  This is a
+Technology Preview (TP), aimed at allowing users, managers and
+developers to see how we have progressed, and to invite feedback and
+support.
+
+WARNINGS
+========
+
+Samba4 TP is currently a pre-alpha technology.  It may eat your cat, but
+is far more likely to choose to munch on your password database. We
+recommend against upgrading any production servers from Samba 3 to
+Samba 4 at this stage.  If you are upgrading an experimental server,
+you should backup all configuration and data.
+
+We expect that format changes will require that the user database be
+rebuilt from scratch a number of times before we make a final release,
+losing password data each time.
+
+Samba 4 Technology Preview includes basic Access Control List (ACL)
+protection on the main user database, but due to time constraints,
+none on the registry at this stage.  We also do not currently have
+ACLs on the SWAT web-based management tool. This means that Samba 4
+Technology Preview is not secure.
+
+File system access should occur as the logged in user, much as Samba3
+does.
+
+Again, we strongly recommend against use in a production environment
+at this stage.
+
+CHANGES
+=======
+
+Those familiar with Samba 3 can find a list of user-visible changes
+since that release series in the NEWS file.
+
+A list of changes since the previous Samba 4 Technology Preview 
+can be found in the WHATSNEW.txt file.
+
+KNOWN ISSUES
+============
+
+- Standalone server and domain member roles are not currently
+  supported.  While we have much of the infrastructure required, we
+  have not collected these pieces together. 
+
+- There is no printing support in the current release.
+
+- SWAT can be painful with <TAB> and forms.  Just use the mouse, as
+  the JavaScript layer doing this will change.
+
+RUNNING Samba4
+==============
+
+A short guide to setting up Samba 4 can be found in the howto.txt file
+in root of the tarball.
+
+DEVELOPMENT and FEEDBACK
+========================
+Bugs can be filed at https://bugzilla.samba.org/. Please
+look at the STATUS file before filing a bug to see if a particular
+is supposed to work yet.
+
+Development and general discussion about Samba 4 happens mainly on
+the #samba-technical IRC channel (on irc.freenode.net) and
+the samba-technical mailing list (see http://lists.samba.org/ for
+details).
+
+</pre>
+</body>
+</html>

