Copyright (C) 1997-2001 - Samba-Team The Samba-Team are committed to an aggressive program to deliver quality controlled software to a well defined roadmap. The current Samba release 2.2 is the Windows 2000 update. It correctly implements the Windows NT specific SMB calls, and will operate correctly as a client in a Windows NT and Windows 2000 Domain environment. In addition, preliminary support for Windows NT and Windows 2000 Domain Control has been implemented, although more remains to be done. Samba 2.2 can now support share level security changes from Windows NT/2000 server manager tools, and can integrate fully into a Windows NT/2000 Domain with no local users when using winbind (see the white paper on the Samba site). This is also the first official release supporting the Samba-VFS layer, allowing non-disk resources such as databases to be exported to Windows clients as disk resources. More work will be done on this in the 2.2.x series. Windows 2000 is now the base tested client for Samba. All work is verified against Windows 2000 clients. The following development objectives for future releases are in place: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2.2.x - Integration with native Windows server management tools, including user account management and share management. 3.0 - "Domain Controller" - able to serve as a Windows NT PDC. Unicode on the wire support. X.XX - "Full Domain Integration" - allowing both PDC and BDC modes. Note that it is a given that the Samba Team will continue to track Windows (2000/XP) update releases, ensuring that Samba will work well with whatever "Beta" releases Redmond throws our way :-). You may also note that the release numbers get fuzzier the further into the future the objectives get. This is intentional as we cannot yet commit to exact timeframes.