Attachment 10424 Details for Bug 10931 – Add note about the support end of Samba 3 to WHATSNEW.TXT

[patch] Add note about the support end of Samba 3 to WHATSNEW.TXT

0001-Added-note-about-the-support-end-of-Samba-3-to-WHATS.patch (text/plain), 2.54 KB, created by Karolin Seeger on 2014-11-10 19:49:13 UTC

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>From f30cce9ea6a56c9ef63e5a25915a374338088bca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld@samba.org>
>Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2014 16:49:30 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] Added note about the support end of Samba 3 to WHATSNEW.TXT
>
>This note should mention, that with the release of 4.2, the support
>for the 3.6. series has ended. Also it should clarify the common
>misconception, that Samba 4.x doens't support previous features like
>NT4 domain support.
>
>Signed-off-by: Marc Muehlfeld <mmuehlfeld@samba.org>
>---
> WHATSNEW.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
>index 84ad200..db49aa2 100644
>--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
>+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
>@@ -9,6 +9,41 @@ system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
> Samba 4.2 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
> 
> 
>+
>+IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THE SUPPORT END OF SAMBA 3
>+=================================================
>+
>+With the final release of Samba 4.2, the last series of Samba 3 has
>+been discontinued! People still running 3.6.x or earlier,should
>+consider moving to a more recent and maintained version(4.0 - 4.2).
>+One of the common misconceptions is that Samba 4.x automatically
>+means "Active Directory only": This is wrong!
>+
>+Acting as an Active Directory Domain Controller is just one of the
>+enhancements included in Samba 4.0 and later. Version 4.0 was just the
>+next release after the 3.6 series and contains all the features of the
>+previous ones - including the NT4-style (classic) domain support. This
>+means you can update a Samba 3.x NT4-style PDC to 4.x, just as you've
>+updated in the past (e. g. from 3.4.x to 3.5.x). You don't have to move
>+your NT4-style domain to an Active Directory!
>+
>+And of course the possibility remains unchanged, to setup a new NT4-style
>+PDC with Samba 4.x, like done in the past (e. g. with openLDAP backend).
>+Active Directory support in Samba 4 is additional and does not replace
>+any of these features. We do understand the difficulty presented by
>+existing LDAP structures and for that reason there isn't a plan to
>+decommission the classic PDC support. It remains tested by the continuous
>+integration system.
>+
>+The code that supports the classic Domain Controller is also the same
>+code that supports the internal 'Domain' of standalone servers and
>+Domain Member Servers. This means that we still use this code, even
>+when not acting as an AD Domain Controller. It is also the basis for
>+some of the features of FreeIPA and so it gets development attention
>+from that direction as well. 
>+
>+
>+
> UPGRADING
> =========
> 
>-- 
>1.9.3
>

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