Patch for whatsnew

Matthieu Patou mat+Informatique.Samba at matws.net
Mon Mar 29 13:19:15 MDT 2010


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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