From f30cce9ea6a56c9ef63e5a25915a374338088bca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Muehlfeld 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 --- 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