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- Release Notes for Samba 3.4.0pre1
-
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.6.0pre1
+ July 28, 2010
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-This is the first preview release of Samba 3.4. This is *not*
+
+This is the first preview release of Samba 3.6. This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
-Major enhancements in Samba 3.4.0 include:
-Authentication Changes:
-o Changed the way smbd handles untrusted domain names given during user
- authentication
+Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.0 include:
+
+
+SMB2 support
+------------
+
+SMB2 support in 3.6.0 is fully functional (with one ommission),
+and can be enabled by setting:
+
+max protocol = SMB2
+
+in the [global] section of your smb.conf and re-starting
+Samba. All features should work over SMB2 except the modification
+of user quotas using the Windows quota management tools.
+
+As this is the first release containing what we consider
+to be a fully featured SMB2 protocol, we are not enabling
+this by default, but encourage users to enable SMB2 and
+test it. Once we have enough confirmation from Samba
+users and OEMs that SMB2 support is stable in wide user
+testing we will enable SMB2 by default in a future Samba
+release.
+
-net Command Changes:
-o parameter syntax made more consistent
+Internal Winbind passdb changes
+-------------------------------
-Authentication Changes
-======================
+Winbind has been changed to use the internal samr and lsa rpc pipe to get
+local user and group information instead of calling passdb functions. The
+reason is to use more of our infrastructure and test this infrastructure by
+using it. With this approach more code in Winbind is shared.
-Previously, when Samba was a domain member and a client was connecting using an
-untrusted domain name, such as BOGUS\user smbd would remap the untrusted
-domain to the primary domain smbd was a member of and attempt authentication
-using that DOMAIN\user name. This differed from how a Windows member server
-would behave. Now, smbd will replace the BOGUS name with it's SAM name. In
-the case where smbd is acting as a PDC this will be DOMAIN\user. In the case
-where smbd is acting as a domain member server this will be WORKSTATION\user.
-Thus, smbd will never assume that an incoming user name which is not qualified
-with the same primary domain, is part of smbd's primary domain.
-While this behavior matches Windows, it may break some workflows which depended
-on smbd to always pass through bogus names to the DC for verification. A new
-parameter "map untrusted to domain" can be enabled to revert to the legacy
-behavior.
+New Spoolss code
+----------------
-net Command Changes
-===================
+The spoolss and the old RAP printing code have been completely
+overhauled and refactored.
-The net command now accepts the common command line parameters most other Samba
-command line utilities use, with a couple of remaining differences:
+All calls from lanman/printing code has been changed to go through the
+spoolss RPC interfaces, this allows us to keep all checks in one place
+and avoid special cases in the main printing code.
+Printing code has been therefore confined within the spoolss code.
--l still gives long output for net commands supporting the --long flag. This was
-more useful than the common --log-base parameter.
+All the printing code, including the spoolss RPC interfaces has been
+changed to use the winreg RPC interfaces to store all data.
+All data has been migrated from custom, arbitrary TDB files to the
+registry interface. This transition allow us to present correct data to
+windows client accessing the server registry through the winreg RPC
+interfaces to query for printer data. Data is served out from a real
+registry implementation and therefore arguably 100% forward compatible.
--i still tells net to read data from stdin (like --stdin) instead of toggling
-the common --scope flag.
+Migration code from the previous TDB files formats is provided. This
+code is automatically invoked the first time the new code is run on the
+server. Although manual migration is also available using the 'net
+printer migrate' command.
--S still tells net the server to connect to (like --server) instead of
-negotiating the common --signing flag. As -S is probably used by most scripts
-doing net rpc commands, this would have been a high-impact change for little
-gain.
+These changes not only make all the spoolss code much more closer to
+"the spec", it also greatly improves our internal testing of both
+spoolss and winreg interfaces, and reduces overall code duplication.
+
+As part of this work, new tests have been also added to increase
+coverage.
+
+This code will also allow, in future, an easy transition to split out
+the spooling functions into a separate daemon for those OEMs that do not
+need printing functionality in their appliances, reducing the code
+footprint.
+
+
+SMB Traffic Analyzer
+--------------------
+
+Added the new SMB Traffic Analyzer (SMBTA) VFS module protocol 2
+featuring encryption, multiple arguments, and easier parseability. A new
+tool 'smbta-util' has been created to control the encryption behaviour
+of SMBTA. For compatibility, SMBTA by default operates on version 1.
+There are programs consuming the data that the module sends.
+
+More information can be found on
+http://holger123.wordpress.com/smb-traffic-analyzer/
+
+
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+Changes
+#######
-This change was mainly done to unify the authentification options. Here, one
-flag changed it's meaning and one useful flag was added.
+smb.conf changes
+----------------
--N used to be the short version of --ntname. It now matches the Samba default of
---no-pass. Use this to stop net from prompting for a password if you want
-anonymous authentication.
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
--A --authentication-file now takes an authentication file with the username and
-password you want net to use, avoiding a password prompt as with plain -U user
-or having to give a password on the command line as in -U user%pass.
+ log writeable files on exit New No
+ ctdb locktime warn threshold New 0
+ smb2 max read New 1048576
+ smb2 max write New 1048576
+ smb2 max trans New 1048576
+ username map cache time New 0
+ async smb echo handler New No
-Last but not least net now always falls back to your local unix username if no
--U is specified and a username is needed. net rpc commands will now prompt for a
-password unless one is specified using either -U user%pass or -A auth_file.
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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
-be filed under the Samba 3.4 product in the project's Bugzilla
+be filed under the Samba 3.6 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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