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+++ b/packaging/Debian/debian/README.debian
@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ samba and sambades (merged together for longer than we can remember.)
Contents of this README file:
1. Notes
-2. Packages Generated from the Samba Sources
-3. Support for NT Domains
-4. Samba and LDAP
+2. Upgrading from Samba 2.2
+3. Packages Generated from the Samba Sources
+4. Support for NT Domains
5. Reporting bugs
@@ -36,7 +36,45 @@ Contents of this README file:
(/var/log/{nmb,smb} were moved to the new location.
-2. Packages Generated from the Samba Sources
+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:
@@ -66,7 +104,7 @@ with glibc2.1 get cleared out (the problem is with glibc, not with Samba
itself).
-3. Support for NT Domains
+4. Support for NT Domains
-------------------------
Samba 2.2 includes preliminary support for NT domains. A Samba server
@@ -86,13 +124,6 @@ Please note that NT domain PDC support is far from complete and is still
experimental.
-4. Samba and LDAP
------------------
-
-Starting with Samba 2.999+3.0cvs20020723-1 we are building Samba with
-ldapsam support.
-
-
5. Reporting Bugs
-----------------
@@ -130,4 +161,3 @@ 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>
-$Id: README.debian,v 1.3 2003/06/01 07:12:51 peloy Exp $