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-0. Samba Team Notes:
-This package is targeted at the current stable release of debian distribution
-(sarge) running on a 2.6.x kernel.
-This package has been made by Simo Sorce on behalf of the Samba Team.
-Do not use Debian BTS to report bugs, it's not a debian project package.
-Thanks to Eloy Paris and Steve "Vorlon" Langasek for the work they've done
-and continue to do on debian unstable packages. That greatly helps me in
-building up debian packages for the Team.
-
-
-WARNING: This package has been built on a 2.6.x kernel !
-
-Samba for Debian
-----------------
-
-This package was built by Eloy Paris <peloy@debian.org> and Steve Langasek
-<vorlon@debian.org>, current maintainers of the Samba packages for Debian,
-based on previous work from Bruce Perens <Bruce@Pixar.com>, Andrew
-Howell <andrew@it.com.au>, Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> and Michael
-Meskes <meskes@topsystem.de>, all previous maintainers of the packages
-samba and sambades (merged together for longer than we can remember.)
-
-Contents of this README file:
-
-1. Notes
-2. Upgrading from Samba 2.2
-3. Packages Generated from the Samba Sources
-4. Support for NT Domains
-5. Reporting bugs
-
-
-1. Notes
---------
-
-- As of Samba 2.0.6-1, the Debian version of Samba is compiled with
- Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) support. PAM support was
- discontinued during the libc5 -> libc6 migration process and I never
- brought it back until 2.0.6-1.
-
-- The smbfs package does not support the 2.0.x Linux kernels anymore.
- This has been the case since the very first packages of the CVS sources
- that eventually became Samba 2.2. To use the smbfs package you need to
- run a 2.2.x kernel or later.
-
-- Starting with the Debian packages for Samba 2.2, the Samba log files (for
- nmbd and smbd) have been moved to a new location: /var/log/samba/. The
- files also have new names: log.nmbd and log.smbd. The old files
- (/var/log/{nmb,smb} were moved to the new location.
-
-
-2. Upgrading from Samba 2.2
----------------------------
-
-Samba 3.0 provides greatly improved support for modern Windows systems,
-including support for Unicode and LDAP. In the process, Samba 3.0
-necessarily also breaks backward compatiblity with past releases. These
-issues are documented herein; if you are aware of other problems related
-to upgrading from Samba 2.2, please let us know at
-<samba@packages.debian.org>.
-
-Samba and LDAP
---------------
-Starting with Samba 2.999+3.0cvs20020723-1 we are building Samba with
-LDAP support. However, the LDAP schema for Samba 3.0 differs
-substantially from the schema used by many sites with Samba 2.2 (not
-enabled in the Debian packages). If upgrading from an LDAP-enabled 2.2,
-you will need to run the convertSambaAccount script found in
-/usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/LDAP. A copy of the schema itself can
-also be found at /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/examples/LDAP/samba.schema.
-
-Character Sets
---------------
-Samba 3.0 introduces support for negotiating Unicode (UCS-2LE) with
-Windows clients. Owing to the close similarity between Windows and Unix
-NLS charsets, in the past, many users were able to pass filenames
-containing non-ASCII characters between clients and servers without
-configuring Samba to know what character set was in use. Now, Samba
-must be able to convert Unix filenames to Unicode before sending to the
-client, so Samba must know what character set the filenames are being
-converted from. If you will be sharing files with non-ASCII names, and
-the filenames are not encoded with UTF-8, you will need to tell Samba
-which character set to use with the 'unix charset' option.
-
-If you had previously specified 'character set' and 'client code page'
-options under 2.2, these settings should be automatically converted for
-you.
-
-
-3. Packages Generated from the Samba Sources
---------------------------------------------
-
-Currently, the Samba sources produce the following binary packages:
-
-samba: A LanManager like file and printer server for Unix.
-samba-common: Samba common files used by both the server and the client.
-smbclient: A LanManager like simple client for Unix.
-swat: Samba Web Administration Tool
-samba-doc: Samba documentation.
-smbfs: Mount and umount commands for the smbfs (works with 2.2.x and
- above kernels, not with 2.0.x kernels.)
-libpam-smbpass: pluggable authentication module for SMB password
- database.
-libsmbclient: Shared library that allows applications to talk to SMB servers.
-libsmbclient-dev: libsmbclient shared libraries.
-winbind: Service to resolve user and group information from a Windows NT
- server.
-python2.2-samba: Python bindings that allow access to various aspects of
- Samba.
-
-Please note that the package smbwrapper (a shared library that provides
-SMB client services that existed between Samba 2.0.0-1 and Samba-2.0.5a-4
-does not exist any more. The reason is that starting with Samba 2.0.6-1, that
-code does not even compile, and the upstream author (Andrew Tridgell)
-recommended to disable the compilation of smbwrapper until some issues
-with glibc2.1 get cleared out (the problem is with glibc, not with Samba
-itself).
-
-
-4. Support for NT Domains
--------------------------
-
-Samba 2.2 includes preliminary support for NT domains. A Samba server
-can now be part of a Windows NT domain whose Primary Domain Controller
-is a Windows NT server. This feature is supposed to be stable although I
-haven't tried it myself. Read the documentation in the samba-doc package
-for help on how to do this (hint: "security = domain" in the smb.conf
-file).
-
-Samba 2.2 has also experimental support for Primary Domain
-Controller. This means that a Samba server can act now as a PDC. There
-are no special flags needed to compile Samba with NT domain PDC
-support. Please read the NTDOM PDC FAQ at www.samba.org (Documentation
-section).
-
-Please note that NT domain PDC support is far from complete and is still
-experimental.
-
-
-5. Reporting Bugs
------------------
-
-If you believe you have found a bug please make sure the possible bug
-also exists in the latest version of Samba that is available for the
-unstable Debian distribution. If you are running Debian stable this
-means that you will probably have to build your own packages. And if the
-problem does not exist in the latest version of Samba we have packaged it
-means that you will have to run the version of Samba you built yourself
-since it is not easy to upload new packages to the stable distribution,
-unless they fix critical security problems.
-
-If you can reproduce the problem in the latest version of Samba then
-it is likely to be a real bug. Your best shot is to search the Samba
-mailing lists to see if it is something that has already been reported
-and fixed - if it is a simple fix we can add the patch to our packages
-without waiting for a new Samba release.
-
-If you decide that your problem deserves to be submitted to the Debian
-Bug Tracking System (BTS) we expect you to be responsive if we request
-more information. If we request more information and do not receive
-any in a reasonable time frame expect to see your bug closed without
-explanation - we can't fix bugs we can't reproduce, and most of the
-time we need more information to be able to reproduce them.
-
-When submitting a bug to the Debian BTS please include the version of
-the Debian package you are using as well as the Debian distribution you
-are using. Think _twice_ about the severity you assign to the bug: we
-are _very_ sensitive about bug severities; the fact that it doesn't
-work for you doesn't mean that the severity must be such that it holds
-a major Debian release. In fact, that it doesn't work for you it
-doesn't mean that it doesn't work for others. So again: think _twice_.
-
-
-Eloy A. Paris <peloy@debian.org>
-Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
-