Patch for whatsnew

Matthieu Patou mat+Informatique.Samba at matws.net
Tue Mar 30 00:36:40 MDT 2010


Hi sassy
> Regarding the DNS issue, I have used this tool to have ldap as the backend
> server of bind9. see here for details
>
> http://github.com/mnagy/bind-dyndb-ldap
>
> I still trying to figure out, how to extend samba4 schema to include bind
> classes and attributes so I could use it, and not running a native openldap
> server.
> Please note however that since samba4 started using
> http://www.dnspython.org/ i don't know hot it is going to be effected.
>    
I don't really know the whole picture but I know that tridge plan to use 
the work from free-ipa to make s4 the dns backend for bind.
I think that his goal is to store the dns stuff in the same place as the 
MS AD store it (that is to say in a seperate partition of the domain).
> Maybe Andrew can tell more
>
>
> Sassy
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Matthieu Patou<
> mat+Informatique.Samba at matws.net<mat%2BInformatique.Samba at matws.net>>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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