- =================================
- Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
- Oct XX, 2007
- =================================
+Release Announcements
+=====================
-This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
+This is the first preview release of Samba 4.6. 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/.
-Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under the version 3
-of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING
-file that accompanies these release notes for further licensing details.
+Samba 4.6 will be the next version of the Samba suite.
-Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
- File Serving:
- o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC
- interfaces.
- o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on
- filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
- o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
- o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
- o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
- o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
+UPGRADING
+=========
+vfs_fruit option "fruit:resource" spelling correction
+-----------------------------------------------------
- Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
- o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts
- and one-way domain trusts
- o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS
- lookups.
- o Support in pam_winbind for logging on using the userPrincipalName.
- o Expansion of nested domain groups via NSS calls.
- o Support for Active Directory LDAP Signing policy.
+Due to a spelling error in the vfs_fruit option parsing for the "fruit:resource"
+option, users who have set this option in their smb.conf were still using the
+default setting "fruit:resource = file" as the parser was looking for the string
+"fruit:ressource" (two "s").
+After upgrading to this Samba version 4.6, you MUST either remove the option
+from your smb.conf or set it to the default "fruit:resource = file", otherwise
+your macOS clients will not be able to access the resource fork data.
- Users & Groups:
- o New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
- o Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.
+This version Samba 4.6 accepts both the correct and incorrect spelling, but the
+next Samba version 4.7 will not accept the wrong spelling.
+Users who were using the wrong spelling "ressource" with two "s" can keep the
+setting, but are advised to switch to the correct spelling.
- Documentation:
- o Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
- from O'Reilly Publishing.
+NEW FEATURES/CHANGES
+====================
+kerberos client encryption types
+--------------------------------
+Some parts of Samba (most notably winbindd) perform Kerberos client
+operations based on a Samba-generated krb5.conf file. A new
+parameter, "kerberos encryption types" allows configuring the
+encryption types set in this file, thereby allowing the user to
+enforce strong or legacy encryption in Kerberos exchanges.
-Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
-================================
+The default value of "all" is compatible with previous behavior, allowing
+all encryption algorithms to be negotiated. Setting the parameter to "strong"
+only allows AES-based algorithms to be negotiated. Setting the parameter to
+"legacy" allows only RC4-HMAC-MD5 - the legacy algorithm for Active Directory.
+This can solves some corner cases of mixed environments with Server 2003R2 and
+newer DCs.
-The Samba Team has adopted the Version 3 of the GNU General Public
-License for the 3.2 and later releases. The GPLv3 is the updated
-version of the GPLv2 license under which Samba is currently
-distributed. It has been updated to improvecompatibility with other
-licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
-improved version of the license to better suit the needs of Free
-Software in the 21st Century.
-The original announcement is available on-line at
+new option for owner inheritance
+--------------------------------
+The "inherit owner" smb.conf parameter instructs smbd to set the
+owner of files to be the same as the parent directory's owner.
+Up until now, this parameter could be set to "yes" or "no".
+A new option, "unix only", enables this feature only for the UNIX owner
+of the file, not affecting the SID owner in the Windows NT ACL of the
+file. This can be used to emulate something very similar to folder quotas.
- http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
-
-New Security Defaults for Authentication
-========================================
-
-Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
-applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
-disabled by default in client utilities such as smbclient and all
-libsmbclient based applications. This will affect connection both
-to and from hosts running DOS, Windows 9x/ME, and OS/2. Please refer
-to the "Changes" section for details on the exact parameters that were
-updated.
-
-
-
-Registry Configuration Backend
-==============================
-
-Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
-supplement smb.conf setting. This feature may be enabled by setting
-"include = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
-section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
-
-More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
-pages.
-
-
-Removed Features
+REMOVED FEATURES
================
-Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
-removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.
-
-
-
-######################################################################
-Changes
-#######
smb.conf changes
-----------------
-
- Parameter Name Description Default
- -------------- ----------- -------
- client lanman auth Changed Default No
- client ldap sasl wrapping New plain
- client plaintext auth Changed Default No
- clustering New No
- cluster addresses New ""
- ctdb socket New ""
- lanman auth Changed Default No
- mangle map Removed
- open files database hashsize Removed
- read bmpx Removed
- registry shares New No
- winbind expand groups New 1
- winbind rpc only New No
-
-
-Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
------------------------
-
-
-Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
----------------------------
-o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
- * Unified POSIX ACL detection including support for FreeBSD and
- HP-UX.
- * Performance improvements for Winbind's lookup functions (names,
- SIDs, and group membership) when joined to an AD domain.
- * Winbind cache validation support.
- * Store domain trust passwords for Samba domain controller's in
- the domain's passdb backend.
- * Merged \winreg server code from the SAMBA_3_2 development branch.
- * Fixes for libreplace.
- * Implement new registry configuration backend.
-
-
-o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
- * Add support for file system objectIDs.
- * Winbind cache validation support.
- * Add in the UNIX capability for 24-bit readX.
- * Improve Delete-on-Close semantics.
- * Removal of static file and path name buffers in SMB file serving
- code.
-
-
-o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
- * Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
- ads join".
-
-
-o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
- * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
- servers.
-
-
-o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
- * Implement support for one-way trusts and two-way cross-forest
- transitive trust in winbindd.
- * Fixes for Winbind's offline/disconnected logon support when
- using remote idmap backends.
- * Fix LookupNames and LookupSids to use the same resolution
- heuristics as Windows XP.
- * Fix lockups in Winbind when running nscd.
- * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
- * Add support for GNU linker scripts when build shared libraries
- (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
- Peach).
-
-
-o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
- * Additional support for decoding and downloading group policy
- objects from Active Directory.
- * Improvements to "net ads keytab" command.
- * Fixes for linking against Heimdal Kerberos client libs.
- * Support LDAP range retrieval searches.
- * Fixes for failure to refresh user ticket caches in Winbind.
- * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
- * Add KDC locator plugin for MIT kerberos 1.6 or later.
-
-
-o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
- * Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
- to come up.
-
-
-o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
- * Merge experimental cluster support patches from the ctdb branch.
- * Add tdb storage abstraction for ctdb.
- * Use IDL for internal message passing system.
- * Add client support for the SamLogonEx() authentication request.
- * Implement RPC proxy stubs in the Samba server code to allow
- replacing implementation functions one by one.
- * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
- packet processing code.
- * Add "net sam rights" command.
- * Support for storing xattrs in tdb files
- * Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs
- * Implement a generic in-memory cache based on rb-trees
- * Add implicit temporary talloc contexts via talloc_stack()
-
-
-o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
- * Fixes for mount.cfs Linux utility.
-
-
-o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
- * Fixes for libreplace.
- * Add support for LDAP digital signing policy.
- * Experimental clustered file system support.
-
-
-o Lars Mueller <lars@samba.org>
- * Makefile and build fixes.
- * Add pam_pwd_expire for pam_winbind (original patch from Andreas
- Schneider).
-
-
-o James Peach <jpeach@apple.com>
- * Fixes for setgroups() and *BSD and Darwin.
- * Support membership of >16 groups on Darwin.
-
-
-o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
- * Added vfs_vfsacl module.
-
-
-o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
- * Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
- * Cleanup internal passdb functions.
-
-
-o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
- * Fixes for IDmap and Passdb backends.
-
-
-o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
- * Port ldb from the Samba 4 tree and add ldb group mapping plugin.
- * Move several file serving related tdb files to use the dbwrap
- API internally.
- * Cleanup the GPFS VFS plugin.
- * Experimental clustered file system support.
+================
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
+ kerberos encryption types New all
+ inherit owner New option
+ fruit:resource Spelling correction
-o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
- * Implement NDR basic to support utilizing IDL files from Samba 4
- tree for general DCE/RPC parsing stubs.
+KNOWN ISSUES
+============
+Currently none.
-######################################################################
+#######################################
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 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
+be filed under the Samba 4.1 and newer product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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