Attachment 8596 Details for Bug 9691 – WHATSNEW patch

[patch] WHATSNEW patch

0001-WHATSNEW-clarify-that-being-a-domian-member-is-a-ful.patch (text/plain), 1.58 KB, created by Andrew Bartlett on 2013-02-28 06:30:45 UTC

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>From 790038380f2f3af5537f569f2b5a1e40370f4585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:27:14 +1100
>Subject: [PATCH] WHATSNEW: clarify that being a domian member is a fully
> supported part of Samba 4.0
>
>---
> WHATSNEW.txt | 14 ++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
>index b594e0e..1351bba 100644
>--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
>+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
>@@ -189,10 +189,16 @@ KNOWN ISSUES
>   headers at compile time) is known to cause errors when dealing with
>   non-ASCII characters.
> 
>-- Domain member support in the 'samba' binary is in it's infancy, and
>-  is not comparable to the support found in winbindd.  As such, do not
>-  use the 'samba' binary (provided for the AD server) on a member
>-  server.
>+- Samba requires that administrators use different binaries for
>+  different server roles.  For example, because domain member support
>+  in the 'samba' binary is in it's infancy, and is not comparable to
>+  the support found in winbindd, we only support using this in
>+  conjunction with the ntvfs file server, in support of the CIFS
>+  proxy, or in support of OpenChange.  In all other use cases,
>+  including standalone servers, domain member servers and classic
>+  domain controllers, the same 'smbd', 'nmbd' and 'winbindd' binaries
>+  found in Samba 3.x are to be used, and remain fully supported.  A
>+  start-up check is in place to enforce these rules.
> 
> - There is no NetBIOS browsing support (network neighbourhood)
>   available for the AD domain controller.  (Support in nmbd and smbd
>-- 
>1.7.11.7
>

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