[PLUTO-help] Nuova beta di SAmba

[Tom aka 'Dido']

Non so se può interessare, ma è uscita la prima beta di Samba 3.0.0.
Sembra che le funzionalità aggiunte siano molte, e molto importanti!
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                  WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 beta1
                           June 7 2003
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This is a beta release of Samba 3.0.0. This is a non-production release 
intended for testing purposes.  Use at your own risk. 

The purpose of this beta release is to get wider testing of the major
new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have
officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are
concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final 
Samba 3.0 release we need as many people as possible to start testing 
these beta releases, and to provide high quality feedback on what 
needs fixing.

Samba 3.0 is feature complete. However there is still some final 
work to be done on certain pieces of functionality.  Please refer to 
the section on "Known Issues" for more details.


Major new features:
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1)  Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
    as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.

2)  Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and
    internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
    and UNICODE character sets.

3)  New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
    been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
    but the new auth system is also very configurable.

4)  New filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
    completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
    persistently. This needs lots of testing.

5)  New "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
    somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we 
    plan to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) 
    with subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
    implemented.

6)  Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
    improves error handling a lot.

7)  Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing 
    printer attributes in active directory

8)  New loadable RPC modules

9)  New dual-daemon winbindd support (-B) for better performance

10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba 
    domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs

11) Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
    domain controllers
  
12) Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using
    an LDAP directory for storing SID to uid/gid mappings
  
13) Major updates to the Samba documentation tree.

Plus lots of other improvements!


Additional Documentation
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Please refer to Samba documentation tree (including in the docs/ 
subdirectory) for extensive explanations of installing, configuring
and maintaining Samba 3.0 servers and clients.  It is advised to 
begin with the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for overviews and specific 
tasks (the current book is up to approximately 400 pages) and to 
refer to the various man pages for information on individual options.