X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW.txt;h=4a3c3e1d0a80cfba1dda82e5400ba4becd24e791;hb=f83a6ce2adbdd471809ccbcfd69dc3fcf6d89129;hp=c264e6a3c72c7f33fd7367cd54892a8f72e92c5c;hpb=7f438c3b9e8913a7836b4851ef7c40a7b97a986d;p=samba.git diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index c264e6a3c72..4a3c3e1d0a8 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,29 +1,22 @@ - WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 beta4 - July 16 2003 + WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 RC3 + September 8, 2003 ============================== -This is the third beta release of Samba 3.0.0. This is a -non-production release intended for testing purposes. Use -at your own risk. +This is the third release candidate snapshot of Samba 3.0.0. A release +candidate implies that the code is very close to a final release, remember +that this is still a non-production release intended for testing purposes. +Use at your own risk. -The purpose of this beta release is to get wider testing of the major -new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have -officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are -concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final -Samba 3.0 release we need as many people as possible to start testing -these beta releases, and to provide high quality feedback on what -needs fixing. - -Samba 3.0 is feature complete. However there is still some final -work to be done on certain pieces of functionality. Please refer to -the section on "Known Issues" for more details. +The purpose of this release candidate is to get wider testing of the major +new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. +Please refer to the section on "Known Issues" for more details. Major new features: ------------------- 1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to - to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate + join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/Kerberos. 2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and @@ -34,9 +27,7 @@ Major new features: been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable. -4) New filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been - completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps - persistently. This needs lots of testing. +4) New default filename mangling system. 5) A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace @@ -49,9 +40,10 @@ Major new features: 7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing printer attributes in active directory. -8) New loadable RPC modules. +8) New loadable module support for passdb backends and + character sets. -9) New dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance. +9) New default dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance. 10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs. @@ -64,25 +56,257 @@ Major new features: 13) Major updates to the Samba documentation tree. +14) Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure + compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings. + Plus lots of other improvements! Additional Documentation ------------------------ -Please refer to Samba documentation tree (including in the docs/ +Please refer to Samba documentation tree (included in the docs/ subdirectory) for extensive explanations of installing, configuring and maintaining Samba 3.0 servers and clients. It is advised to begin with the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for overviews and specific tasks (the current book is up to approximately 400 pages) and to refer to the various man pages for information on individual options. +We are very glad to be able to include the second edition of +"Using Samba" by Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, and David Collier-Brown +(O'Reilly & Associates) in this release. The book is available +on-line at http://samba.org/samba/docs/ and is included with +the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT). Thanks to the authors and +publisher for making "Using Samba" under the GNU Free Documentation +License. + + ###################################################################### -Changes since 3.0beta2 -###################### +Changes since 3.0rc2 +#################### Please refer to the CVS log for the SAMBA_3_0 branch for complete -details +details: + +1) Remove Perl module dependencies in generated RedHat 8/9 RPMS. +2) Update mount helper to take synonyms for file_mode and + dir_mode (fmask and dmask). +3) Fix portability bug with log2pcaphex. +4) Use different algorithm to generate codepages source code which + allows to take gaps into account thus making unnecessary + extended [index] = value, syntax in to_ucs2 array (bug 380). +5) Fix comment strings to 43 bytes as per spec. +6) Fix pam_winbind compile bug on FreeBSD (bug 261). +7) Support for in-memory keytabs, which are needed to make heimdal + work properly. MIT does not support them, so this check will be + used to decide whether to use them. (partial fix for bug 372). +8) Disable RC4-HMAC on broken heimdal setups. (remainder of bug + 372). +9) Correct bug in smbclient that resulted in errors when untarring + long filenames (bug 308). +10) Improve autoconf checks for PAM header files and libs. +11) Added fast path to convert_string() when dealing with + ASCII->ASCII, UCS2-LE->ASCII, and ASCII->UCS2-LE with + values <= 0x7F. +12) Quiet debug messages when we don't find a module and it is not + a critical error (bug 375). +13) Fix UNIX passwd sync properly. +14) Fix more transitive trust issues in winbindd (bug 305). +15) Ensure that winbindd functions with 'disable netbios = yes' +16) Store the real short domain name in secrets.tdb as soon as we + know it. Also display an error message when joining an AD + domain and the 'workgroup' parameter has not been specified. +17) Return 0 DFS links instead of -1 when dfs support is not enabled. +18) Update LDAP schema for Netscape DS 4.x and Novell eDirectory 8.7 +19) Ensure that name types can be specified using name#type notation + in the 'net' command (bug 73). +20) Add retry looks to ADS sequence number and domain SID lookups + (bug 364). +21) use a variant of alloc_sub_basic() for string lists such as + 'valid users', 'write list', and 'read list' (bug 397). +22) Fix seg fault when winbindd receives an error from the AD server + in response to an LDAP search (bug 282). +23) Update findsmb to use the new syntax for smbclient and nmblookup. +24) Fix bug that prevented variables from being used in explicitly + defined path in [homes]. +25) Only set SIDs when they're returned by the MySQL query + (pdb_mysql.so). +26) Include support for NTLMv2 key exchange. +27) Revert default for 'client ntlmv2 auth' to off (bug 359). +28) Fix crash in winbindd when the trust account password gets + changed underneath us via 'net rpc changetrustpw' (bug 382). +29) Use djb-algorithm string hash - faster than the tdb one we + used to use. Does not change on disk format or hashing location. +30) Implements some kind of improved AFS support for Samba on + Linux with OpenAFS 1.2.10. './configure --with-fake-kaserver' + assumes that you have OpenAFS on your machine. +31) When enumerating dfs shares loop from 0 to lp_numservices() instead + of relying on lp_servicename(n) to return an empty string for + invalid service numbers (bug 403). +32) Fix crash bug in 'net rpc samdump' (bug 334). +33) Fix crash bug in WINS NSS module (bug 299). +34) Fix a few minor compile errors on HP-UX. + + + +Changes since 3.0rc1 +#################### + +1) Add levels 261 and 262 to search. Found using Samba4 tester. +2) Correct bad error return code in session setup reply +3) Fix bug where smbd returned DOS error codes from SMBsearch + even when NT1 protocol was negotiated. +4) Implement SMBexit properly. +5) Return group lists from a Samba PDC to a Windows 9x/ME box + in implementing user level access control (bug 314). +6) Prevent SWAT from crashing when adding shares (bug 254) +7) Fix various documentation issues (bugs 304 & 214) +8) Fix wins server listing in SWAT (bug 197) +9) Fix problem in rpcclient that caused enumerating printer + drivers to report failure (bug 294). +10) Use kerberos 5 authentication in our client code whenever possible +11) Fix schannel bug that caused Active Directory DC's to downgrade our + machine account to an NT member. +12) Implement missing SAMR_REMOVE_USER_FOREIGN_DOMAIN call (bug 252). +13) Implement automatic generation of include/version.h +14) Include initial version of smbldap-tool scripts for the Samba + 3.0 schema. +15) Implement numerous fixes for multi-byte character strings. +16) Enable 'unix extensions' parameter by default. +17) Make sure we set the SID type when falling back to the rid + algorithm (bug 245). +18) Correct linking problems with pam_smbpass (bug 327). +19) Add SYSV defines for Irix and Solaris to ensure the 'printing' + parameter default to the correct value (bug 230) +20) Fix recursion bug in alloc_string_sub() (bug 289, et. al.) +21) Ensure that 'make install' includes the static and shared + versions of the libsmbclient libraries. +22) Add CP850 and CP437 internal character set support (bug 150). +23) Add support to examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount for generating + LDIF modify files instead of just add (303). +24) Fix support for -W option in smbclient (bug 39) +25) Remove 'ldap trust ids' parameter since it could not be supported + by the current architecture. +26) Don't crash when no argument is given to -T in smbclient (bug 345). +27) Ensure smbadduser contains the same paths for the smbpasswd file + as the other Samba tools (bug 290). +28) Port of 'available = no' fix for [homes] from SAMBA_2_2 cvs tree. +29) Add sanity checks to DeletePrinterData[Ex]() and ensure that the + modified printer is written to disk. +30) Force winbindd to periodically update the trusted domain cache. +31) Remove outdated import/export script to convert an smbpasswd file + to and from and LDAP directory. Use the pdbedit tool instead. +32) Ensure that %U substitution is restored on next valid packet + if a logon fails. + + +Changes since 3.0beta3 +###################### + +1) Various memory leak fixes. +2) Provide full support for SMB signing (server and client) +3) Check for broken getgrouplist() in glibc. +4) Don't get stuck in an infinite loop listing directories + recursively if the server returns an empty directory name + (bug 222). +5) Idle LDAP connections after 150 seconds. +6) Patched make uninstallmodules (bug 236). +7) Fix bug that caused smbd to return incomplete directory listings + when UNIX files contained MS wildcard characters. +8) Quiet default debug messages in command line tools. +9) Fixes to avoid panics on invalid multi-byte strings. +10) Fix error messages when creating a new smbpasswd file (bug 198). +11) Implemented better detection routines in autoconf scripts for + locating ads support on the host OS. +12) Fix bug that caused libraries in /usr/local/lib to be ignored + (bug 174). +13) Ensure winbindd_ads uses the correct realm or domain name when + connecting to trusted DC. +14) Ensure a correct prototype is created for snprintf() (bug 187) +15) Stop files being created on read-only shares in some circumstances. +16) Fix wbinfo -p (bug 251) +17) Support schannel on any tcp/ip connection if necessary +18) Correct bug in user_in_list() so that it works with winbind groups + again. +19) Ensure the schannel bind credentials default to the domain + of the destination host. +20) Default password expiration time in account_pol.tdb to never + expire. Remove any existing account_pol.tdb file to reset + the new default policy (bug 184). +21) Add buttons to SWAT to change the view of smb.conf (bug 212) +22) Fix incorrect checks that determine whether or not the 'add user + script' has been set. +23) More cleanup for internal character set conversions. +24) Fixes for multi-byte strings in stat cache code. +25) Ensure that the net command honors the 'workgroup' parameter + in smb.conf when not overridden from the command line. +26) Add gss-spnego support to the ntlm_auth tool. +27) Add vfs_default_quota VFS module. +28) Added server support for NT quota interfaces. +29) Prevent Krb5 replay attacks by adding a replay_cache. +30) Fix problems with winbindd and transitive trusts in AD domains. +31) Added -S to client tools for setting SMB signing options on the + command line. +32) Fix bug causing the 'passwd change program' to be called as the + connected user and not root. +33) Fixed data corruption bug in byte-range locking (e.g. affected MS Excel). +34) Support winbindd on FreeBSD is possible. +35) Look at only the first OID in the security blob sent in the session + setup request to determine the token type. +36) Only push locks onto a blocking lock queue if the posix lock failed with + EACCES or EAGAIN (this means another lock conflicts). Else return an + error and don't queue the request. +37) Fix command line argument processing for smbtar. +38) Correct issue that caused smbd to return generic unix_user. + for lookupsid(). +39) Default to algorithmic mapping when generating a rid for a group + mapping. +40) Expand %g and %G in logon script, profile path, etc... during + a domain logon (bug 208). +41) Make sure smbclient obeys '-s ' +42) Added win2k3 shadow copy operations to VFS interface. +43) Allow connections to samba domain member as SERVER\user (don't + always default to DOMAIN\user). +44) Remove checks in winbindd that caused it to attempt to use + non-transitive trust relationships. +45) Remove delays in winbindd caused by invalid DNS lookups. +46) Fix supplementary group memberships on systems with slightly + broken NSS implementations (bug 267). +47) Correct issue that prevented smbclient from viewing shares on + a win2k server when using a non-anonymous connection (bug 284). +48) Add --domain=DOMAIN_NAME to wbinfo for limiting operations like + 'wbinfo -u' to a single domain. The '.' character represents + our domain. +49) Fix group enumeration bug when using an LDAP directory for + storing group mappings. +50) Default to use NTLMv2 if available. Fallback to not use LM/NTLM + when the extended security capability bit is not set. +51) Fix crash in 'wbinfo -a' when using extended characters in the + username (bug 269). +52) Fix multi-byte strupper() panics (bug 205). +53) Add vfs_readonly VFS module. +54) Make sure to initialize the sambaNextUserRid and sambaNextGroupRid + attributes when using 'idmap backend = ldap' (bug 280). +55) Make sure that users shared between a Samba PDC and member + samba server are seen as domain users and not local users on the + domain member. +56) Fix Query FS Info level 2. +57) Allow enumeration of users and groups by win9x "file server" (bug + 286). +58) Create symlinks during install for modules that support mutliple + functions (bug 91). +59) More iconv detection fixes. +60) Fix path length error in vfs_recycle module (bug 291). +61) Added server support for the LSA_DS UUID on the \lsarpc pipe. + (server DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInfo() is currently disabled). +62) Fix SMBseek and get/set position calls. +62) Fix SetFileInfo level 1. +63) Added tool to convert smbd log file to a pcap file (log2pcaphex). + + + +Changes since 3.0beta2 +###################### 1) Added fix for Japanese case names in statcache code; these can change size on upper casing. @@ -113,8 +337,8 @@ details groups (bug #109). 13) Remove idmap_XX_to_XX calls from smbd. Move back to the the winbind_XXX and local_XXX calls used in 2.2. -14) All uid/gid allocation must involve winbindd now - (we no attempt to map unknown SIDs to a UNIX identify). +14) All uid/gid allocation must involve winbindd now (we do not + attempt to map unknown SIDs to a UNIX identify). 15) Add 'winbind trusted domains only' parameter to force a domain member. The server to use matching users names from /etc/passwd for its domain (needed for domain member of a Samba domain). @@ -241,6 +465,49 @@ Changes since 3.0beta1 ###################################################################### +Upgrading from a previous Samba 3.0 beta +######################################## + +Beginning with Samba 3.0.0beta3, the RID allocation functions +have been moved into winbindd. Previously these were handled +by each passdb backend. This means that winbindd must be running +to automatically allocate RIDs for users and/or groups. Otherwise, +smbd will use the 2.2 algorithm for generating new RIDs. + +If you are using 'passdb backend = tdbsam' with a previous Samba +3.0 beta release (or possibly alpha), it may be necessary to +move the RID_COUNTER entry from /usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb +to winbindd_idmap.tdb. To do this: + +1) Ensure that winbindd_idmap.tdb exists (launch winbindd at least + once) +2) build tdbtool by executing 'make tdbtool' in the source/tdb/ + directory +3) run: (note that 'tdb>' is the tool's prompt for input) + + root# ./tdbtool /usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb + tdb> show RID_COUNTER + key 12 bytes + RID_COUNTER + data 4 bytes + [000] 0A 52 00 00 .R. + + tdb> move RID_COUNTER /usr/local/samba/var/locks/winbindd_idmap.tdb + .... + record moved + +If you are using 'passdb backend = ldapsam', it will be necessary to +store idmap entries in the LDAP directory as well (i.e. idmap backend += ldap). Refer to the 'net idmap' command for more information on +migrating SID<->UNIX id mappings from one backend to another. + +If the RID_COUNTER record does not exist, then these instructions are +unneccessary and the new RID_COUNTER record will be correctly generated +if needed. + + + +######################## Upgrading from Samba 2.2 ######################## @@ -337,6 +604,7 @@ New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function): * ntlm auth * paranoid server security * server schannel + * server signing * smb ports * use spnego @@ -382,7 +650,6 @@ New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function): * ldap idmap suffix * ldap machine suffix * ldap passwd sync - * ldap trust ids * ldap user suffix General Configuration @@ -399,6 +666,7 @@ Modified Parameters (changes in behavior): * restrict anonymous (integer value) * security (new 'ads' value) * strict locking (enabled by default) + * unix extensions (enabled by default) * winbind cache time (increased to 5 minutes) * winbind uid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap uid') * winbind gid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap gid') @@ -470,6 +738,14 @@ aware of when moving to Samba 3.0. with an Active Directory domain using the native Windows Kerberos 5 and LDAP protocols. + MIT kerberos 1.3.1 supports the ARCFOUR-HMAC-MD5 encryption + type which is neccessary for servers on which the + administrator password has not been changed, or kerberos-enabled + SMB connections to servers that require Kerberos SMB signing. + Besides this one difference, either MIT or Heimdal Kerberos + distributions are usable by Samba 3.0. + + Samba 3.0 also includes the possibility of setting up chains of authentication methods (auth methods) and account storage backends (passdb backend). Please refer to the smb.conf(5) @@ -716,10 +992,10 @@ Examples Known Issues ############ -* The smbldap perl scripts for managing user entries in an LDAP - directory have not be updated to function with the Samba 3.0 - schema changes. This (or an equivalent solution) work is planned - to be completed prior to the stable 3.0.0 release. +* There are several bugs currently logged against the 3.0 codebase + that affect the use of NT 4.0 GUI domain management tools when run + against a Samba 3.0 PDC. This bugs should be released in an early + 3.0.x release. Please refer to https://bugzilla.samba.org/ for a current list of bugs filed against the Samba 3.0 codebase. @@ -738,6 +1014,6 @@ the problem then you will probably be ignored. A new bugzilla installation has been established to help support the Samba 3.0 community of users. This server, located at -https://bugzilla.samba.org/, will replace the existing jitterbug server -and the old http://bugs.samba.org now points to the new bugzilla server. +https://bugzilla.samba.org/, has replaced the older jitterbug server +previously located at http://bugs.samba.org/.