Preparing for release.

WHATSNEW.txt: Updated date.
docs/smb.conf.5: Updated for security=server downgrade.
Jeremy.

diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index d47668e8b58609485a160636c78aec6042541c0a..2bfddb9324865168218da2a74b7aa5bc8a934f0b 100644 (file)
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-          WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18p5 - May 4th 1998.
+          WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18p5 - May 8th 1998.
           =====================================
 
 This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the

diff --git a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5 b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
index 1dec8e877502f0cc69bac5655f17d4271a179632..6c004d20460fc4ceab5f6b59fc77ac732de73844 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
+++ b/docs/manpages/smb.conf.5
@@ -3304,7 +3304,11 @@ user that you are logged into WfWg as.
 
 If you use "security = server" then Samba will try to validate the
 username/password by passing it to another SMB server, such as an NT
-box. If this fails it will revert to "security = USER".
+box. If this fails it will revert to "security = USER", but note that
+if encrypted passwords have been negotiated then Samba cannot revert
+back to checking the UNIX password file, it must have a valid 
+smbpasswd file to check users against. See the documentation
+docs/ENCRYPTION.txt for details on how to set this up.
 
 See the "password server" option for more details.