Patch for whatsnew

Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer mdw at samba.org
Wed Apr 7 16:03:25 MDT 2010


Introduced some changes in a recent commit. Look at the GIT log.

Matthieu Patou wrote:
> Matthias what's up with it ?On 29/03/2010 23:19, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>> Hi Matthias,
>>
>> I read your modification it's great.
>>
>> I propose to finish with this:
>>
>> Feel free to reject
>>
>> diff --git a/WHATSNEW4.txt b/WHATSNEW4.txt
>> index 7176abe..fe4b467 100644
>> --- a/WHATSNEW4.txt
>> +++ b/WHATSNEW4.txt
>> @@ -87,8 +87,11 @@ These can now also be set on the command line 
>> directly on the server. See
>>  "net acl" for further informations.
>>
>>  * dynamic DNS updates
>> -A new DNS upgrade mechanism has been introduced which works with 
>> newer bind9
>> -releases.
>> +Up to date DNS entries is critical for good operation of the Active 
>> Directory services.
>> +For the moment samba 4 can't act as DNS server nor be the database 
>> backend for any DNS
>> +implementation. In order to minimize this problem, a solution that 
>> update dynamicaly
>> +both grants and ressource record has been developped, this allow to 
>> update the list of who has the
>> +right to update (grants) and record related to domain (especialy 
>> records related to AD).
>>
>>  * registry improvements
>>  The registry code was reworked, improved and retested. This was 
>> achieved by the
>> @@ -97,10 +100,10 @@ new torture tests written by gd and some 
>> additional testing against Windows
>>  Also some real bugs were fixed.
>>
>>  * new Kerberos HEIMDAL release
>> -Abartlet imported a new release with various bugfixes
>> +Andrew Bartlet imported a new release with various bugfixes
>>
>>  * DCE/RPC code unification work
>> -Metze started his work to unify these codebases between s3 and s4
>> +Stefan (metze) Metzmacher started his work to unify these codebases 
>> between s3 and s4
>>
>>  * And much more
>>  We always try to fix bugs and keep improving the (source) quality of 
>> our
>> @@ -139,8 +142,6 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
>>    from Samba3 to Samba4. It's not included yet in the binary 
>> distributions
>>    since it's completely experimental!
>>
>> -- ACL are not set by default on shares created by the provision.
>> -  Work is underway on this subject and it should be fixed soon.
>>
>> On 26/03/2010 14:55, Matthieu Patou wrote:
>>> Hi Matthias,
>>>
>>> find the updated version.
>>>
>>> On 24/03/2010 19:06, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
>>>> Hi Matthieu
>>>>> +This release includes changes related to:
>>>>> +
>>>>> +* winbind, to allow a fairly good
>>>>> +implementation of functions needed by libnss_winbind and 
>>>>> pam_winbind.
>>>>> +The usage of this two library allow to have domain users and 
>>>>> groups information
>>>>> +available on the unix and unix-like side. It allow to be able to 
>>>>> use domain user
>>>>> +to connect to all the services (ssh, login, X session, ...)
>>>>> +More information available 
>>>>> athttp://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind
>>>> ^^^ It is possible that you can fix the newline position after 
>>>> "fairly good"? All complete text lines should have the same length.
>>>>
>>>> Matthias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Matthieu Patou wrote:
>>>>> Add info in whatsnew4.txt about what I have done since alpha11.
>>>>>
>>>>> I also added a page about winbind and S4 (although most of it 
>>>>> should be also correct with S3): 
>>>>> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/Winbind.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Matthieu
>>>>
>>>
>>
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