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@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above. -While we welcome your interest in Samba 4, we don't want you to run your network with it quite yet. Please note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file, -which aims to document what should and should not work. +While we welcome your interest in Samba 4, we don't want you to run your +network with it quite yet. Please note the WARNINGS below, and the +STATUS file, which aims to document what should and should not work. With 4 years of development under our belt since Tridge first proposed a new Virtual File System (VFS) layer for Samba3 (a project which @@ -17,12 +18,12 @@ support. WARNINGS ======== -Samba4 TP is currently a pre-alpha technology. That is more a -reference to Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need -than a statement of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad -deployment yet. If you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to -Samba4, you would find many things work, but that other key features -you may have relied on simply are not there yet. +Samba4 is currently at alpha stage. That is more a reference to +Samba4's lack of the features we expect you will need than a statement +of code quality, but clearly it hasn't seen a broad deployment yet. If +you were to upgrade Samba3 (or indeed Windows) to Samba4, you would find +many things work, but that other key features you may have relied on +simply are not there yet. For example, while Samba 3.0 is an excellent member of a Active Directory domain, Samba4 is happier as a domain controller: (This is @@ -98,10 +99,10 @@ CHANGES Those familiar with Samba 3 can find a list of user-visible changes since that release series in the NEWS file. - - An optional password is no longer supported as the second argument to + - An optional password is no longer supported as the second argument to smbclient. - - The default location of smb.conf in non-FHS builds has changed from the + - The default location of smb.conf in non-FHS builds has changed from the PREFIX/lib directory to the PREFIX/etc directory. KNOWN ISSUES @@ -109,7 +110,7 @@ KNOWN ISSUES - Standalone server and domain member roles are not currently supported. While we have much of the infrastructure required, we - have not collected these pieces together. + have not collected these pieces together. - There is no printing support in the current release. |