Samba PDC feature release proposal

[Cole, Timothy D.]

excellent!

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Gerald Carter [SMTP:gcarter at valinux.com]
> Sent:	Saturday, October 07, 2000 1:14
> To:	samba-technical at samba.org
> Subject:	Samba PDC feature release proposal
> 
> Folks,
> 
> Given the feedback from everyone, here is the feature
> implementation and release proposal I'm throwing out 
> there.
> 
> See the updated Roadmap at 
> 
> 	http://us4.samba.org/samba/development.html
> 
> also for more goodies.
> 
> This plan allows us to set given milestones for testing
> and release.  This does not mean that features in 
> release 2 are not important for a PDC.  This is just 
> a means or ordering the implementation so we can 
> get a stable release out there as soon as the 
> acceptance criteria is met.
> 
> Note that I've not included Exchange plugins here.
> I think I would consider that to be a separete project
> (beyond this scope).
> 
> 
> Release 1: 
> 	* Domain logon support for Windows NT 4.0 SP3+ and
>           Windows 2000 clients 
> 	* User and group enumeration by domain 
> 	  member services such as assigning users to 
> 	  NTFS ACLs and share permissions. 
> 	* Support for the full range of user profile 
> 	  settings such as valid logon hours, password 
> 	  expiration, profile location, home directory, etc... 
> 
> Release 2: 
> 	* Participation in Windows NT 4.0 SAM replication 
> 	  protocols both as a Primary Domain Controller 
> 	  and as a Backup Domain Controller 
> 
> Release 3: 
> 	* Ability to initiate and maintain Inter-Domain 
> 	  Trust Relationships in an existing Windows 
>  	  NT multi domain network. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers, jerry
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