updated the WHATSNEW in preparation for an alpha release

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diff --git a/README b/README
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-This is version 1.9.18 of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
+This is version 2.0.0alphaX of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
 server for unix and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by
 the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
 
diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
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--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
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@@ -1,205 +1,72 @@
-          WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18 - January 7th 1998.
-          =======================================
+          WHATS NEW IN 2.0.0 ALPHA SERIES
+          ===============================
 
-This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the
-version that all production Samba servers should be running
-for all current bug-fixes.
+This is an alpha release of Samba. Releases in this series are done
+automatically every week based on the latest code in the Samba CVS
+tree. 
 
-This release contains several major changes and much re-written 
-code.
+THIS RELEASE IS NOT PRODUCTION QUALITY. IT MAY NOT EVEN COMPILE. 
 
-The main changes are :
-
-1). Oplock support now operational.
------------------------------------
+If you use this release then be aware of the following:
 
-Samba now supports 'exclusive' and 'batch' oplocks.
-These are an advanced networked file system feature
-that allows clients to obtain a exclusive use of a 
-file. This allows a client to cache any changes it
-makes locally, and greatly improves performance.
-
-Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
-release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
-could be faster in some situations. Samba has
-now been benchmarked as out performing Windows
-NT on equivalently priced hardware.
-
-The oplock code in Samba has been extensively
-tested and is believed to be completely stable.
-
-Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias.
-
-2). NetBIOS name daemon re-written.
------------------------------------
-
-The old nmbd that has caused some users problems
-has now been completely re-written and now is
-much easier to maintain and add changes to.
-
-Changes include support for multi-homed hosts
-in the same way as an NT Server with multiple
-IP interfaces behaves (registers with the WINS
-server as a multi-homed name type), and also
-support for multi-homed name registration in
-the Samba WINS server. Another added feature
-is robustness in the face of WINS server failure,
-nmbd will now keep trying to contact the WINS 
-server until it is successful, in the same
-way as an NT Server.
-
-Also in this release is an implementation
-of the Lanman announce protocol used by
-OS/2 clients. Thanks to Jacco de Leeuw for 
-this code.
-
-3). New Internationalization support.
--------------------------------------
-
-With this release Samba no longer needs to be
-separately compiled for Japanese (Kanji) support,
-the same binary will serve both Kanji and non-Kanji
-clients.
+- only use these releases if you can't use CVS for some
+  reason. Getting the code via anonymous cvs is preferable. See
+  http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html 
 
-A new method of dynamically loading client code pages
-has been added to allow the case insensitivity to
-be done dependent on the code page of the client.
+- don't use this code if you are not an experienced programmer. We are
+  doing these releases so that users who cannot access the CVS tree
+  directly for some reason can report/fix bugs. If you find bugs in
+  this release and you want to help fix them then please join the
+  samba-technical mailing list (see http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/)
+  and discuss it there.
 
-Note that Samba still will only handle one client
-code page at a time. This will be fixed when
-Samba is fully UNICODE enabled.
+- the docs are not uptodate. If you find documentation errors then
+  please send patches to fix them. Out of date documentation is one of
+  the main things holding back a Samba 2.0 release.
 
-Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage
-for details on adding additional client code page
-support.
+Major changes in Samba 2.0
+--------------------------
 
-4). New Printing support.
--------------------------
+There have been several major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here
+are some of them:
 
-An implementation of the Windows 95 automatic printer
-driver installation has been added to smbd. To use this
-new feature please read the document:
+1). autoconf
+------------
 
-docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt
+You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then make. See
+docs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt 
 
-Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau, and also Herb Lewis
-of Silicon Graphics for this new code.
+2) domain control
+-----------------
 
-Printer support on System V systems (notably Solaris)
-has been improved with the addition of code generously
-donated by Norm Jacobs of Sun Microsystems. Sun have
-also made a Solaris SPARC workstation available to the
-Samba Team to aid in their porting efforts.
+Samba can now (mostly) act as a NT primary domain controller and
+domain logon server. Unfortunately this is largely undocumented at the
+moment, but to get you started you want smb.conf entries like this:
 
+	domain controller = Yes
+	domain logons = Yes
+	preferred master = Yes
+	domain master = Yes
 
-Changed code.
--------------
+[netlogon]
+	path = /data/netlogon
+	read only = No
 
-Samba no longer needs the libdes library to support
-encrypted passwords. Samba now contains a restricted
-version of DES that can only be used for authentication
-purposes (to comply with the USA export encryption
-regulations and to allow USA Mirror sites to carry
-Samba source code). The 'encrypt passwords' parameter
-may now be used without recompiling.
+further documentation on this still needs to be written :)
 
-Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
-to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
+3) option defaults changed
+--------------------------
 
-Samba now contains an implementation of share modes
-using System V shared memory as well as the mmap()
-based code. This was done to allow the 'FAST_SHARE_MODES'
-to be used on more systems (especially HPUX 9.x) that
-have System V shared memory, but not the mmap() call.
+several parameters have changed their default values. The most
+important of these is that the default security mode is now user level
+security rather than share level security.
 
-The System V shared memory code is used by default on
-many systems as it has benchmarked as faster on many
-systems.
+4) web based GUI configuration
+------------------------------
 
-The Automount code has been slightly re-shuffled, such
-that the home directory (and profile location) can be
-specified by \\%N\homes and \\%N\homes\profiles
-respectively, which are the defaults for these values.
-If -DAUTOMOUNT is enabled, then %N is the server
-component of the user's NIS auto.home entry.  Obviously,
-you will need to be running Samba on the user's home
-server as well as the one they just logged in on.
+Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
+swat/README for how to set it up.
 
-The RPC Domain code has been moved into a separate directory
-rpc_pipe/, and a LGPL License issued specifically for code
-in this directory.  This is so that people can use this
-code in other projects.
-
-Missing feature.
-----------------
-
-One feature that we wanted to get into this release
-that was not possible due to the re-write of the nmbd
-code was the scalability features in the Samba WINS server.
-This feature is now tentatively scheduled for the next
-release (1.9.19). Apologies to anyone who was hoping
-for this feature to be included. The nmbd re-write
-will make it much easier to add such things in future.
-
-New parameters in smb.conf.
----------------------------
-
-New Global parameters.
-----------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
-
-	"bind interfaces only"
-
-        "lm announce"
-        "lm interval"
-
-	"logon drive"
-	"logon home"
-
-        "min wins ttl"
-        "max wins ttl"
-
-	"username level"
-
-New Share level parameters.
----------------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
-
-	"delete veto files"
-	"oplocks"
-
-Nascent web interface for configuration.
-----------------------------------------
-
-source/wsmbconf.c is a cgi-bin program for editing smb.conf. It can
-also be run standalone. This is in a very early stage of development.
-
-Debugging support.
-------------------
-
-smbd and nmbd will now modify their debug log level when
-they receive a USR1 signal (increase debug level by one)
-and USR2 signal (decrease debug level by one). This has
-been added to aid administrators track down faults that
-only occur after long periods of time, or transiently.
-
-Reporting bugs.
----------------
-
-If you have problems, or think you have found a
-bug please email a report to :
-
-	samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-
-Please state the version number of Samba that
-you are running, and *full details* of the steps
-we need to reproduce the problem.
-
-As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
-
-Regards,
-
-	The Samba Team.
 
+There have been lots of other changes as well. We'll add them here as
+we remember them :)