SAMBA 3.00 RC1 - ute fra i dag!

[FreeBSD]

Leser på OSNews at SAMBA 3.00 RC1 skal være lagt ut til nedlasting. Dette er altså da en "Milestone Relelase" som burde inneholde en rekke vitale endringer.

 

Noen som vet hvilke virkelig store nyheter denne utgaven kan by på?

[Cronius]

Tja, det var vel på tide med et nummerskifte da

 

Samba-3.0.0rc1:

Major new features:

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1)  Active Directory support.  Samba 3.0 is now 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 default filename mangling system.

 

5)  A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to  

   the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace  

   numerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands  

   in "net".

 

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 default dual-daemon winbindd support 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.

 

14) Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure

   compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings.

 

Plus lots of other improvements!