- WHATS NEW IN 2.0.0 ALPHA SERIES
- ===============================
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha24
+ 14th May 2003
+ ==============================
+
+This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
+Use at your own risk.
-This is an alpha release of Samba. Releases in this series are done
-automatically every week based on the latest code in the Samba CVS
-tree.
-
-THIS RELEASE IS NOT PRODUCTION QUALITY. IT MAY NOT EVEN COMPILE.
-
-If you use this release then be aware of the following:
-
-- only use these releases if you can't use CVS for some
- reason. Getting the code via anonymous cvs is preferable. See
- http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html
-
-- don't use this code if you are not an experienced programmer. We are
- doing these releases so that users who cannot access the CVS tree
- directly for some reason can report/fix bugs. If you find bugs in
- this release and you want to help fix them then please join the
- samba-technical mailing list (see http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/)
- and discuss it there.
-
-- the docs are not uptodate. If you find documentation errors then
- please send patches to fix them. Out of date documentation is one of
- the main things holding back a Samba 2.0 release.
-
-Major changes in Samba 2.0
---------------------------
-
-There have been several major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here
-are some of them:
-
-1) autoconf
------------
-
-You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then make. See
-docs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt
-
-2) domain control
------------------
-
-Samba can now (mostly) act as a NT primary domain controller and
-domain logon server. Unfortunately this is largely undocumented at the
-moment, but to get you started you want smb.conf entries like this:
-
- domain controller = Yes
- domain logons = Yes
- preferred master = Yes
- domain master = Yes
-
-[netlogon]
- path = /data/netlogon
- read only = No
-
-further documentation on this still needs to be written :)
-
-3) option defaults changed
---------------------------
-
-several parameters have changed their default values. The most
-important of these is that the default security mode is now user level
-security rather than share level security.
-
-4) web based GUI configuration
-------------------------------
-
-Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
-swat/README for how to set it up.
-
-5) change to nmbd default logging behavior
-------------------------------------------
-
-The nmbd daemon now appends to pre-existing log files by default. In
-previous releases, nmbd would overwrite old log files. Both nmbd and smbd
-now accept the '-a' and '-o' options, which mean "append" and "overwrite",
-respectively.
-
-
-Minor changes in Samba 2.0
---------------------------
-
-1) timestamps on all log messages
----------------------------------
-
-Both nmbd and smbd now place timestamp headers on all log messages. The
-headers include the time and the message level. On systems with compilers
-that support the necessary macros, the file & function names and the line
-number (of the call to Debug()) will also be listed.
-
-2) NetBIOS name server has improved database
---------------------------------------------
-
-The linked list used to store NetBIOS names in the Samba "WINS" database
-has been replaced with a splay-balanced binary tree. This should improve
-speed for installations with very large WINS lists.
-
-
-There have been lots of other changes as well. We'll add them here as
-we remember them :)
+The purpose of this alpha 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 alpha
+releases, and hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs
+fixing.
+
+Note that Samba 3.0 is not feature complete yet. There is a more
+coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have done already more
+widely tested we will have a hard time doing a stable release in a
+reasonable time frame.
+
+Major new features:
+-------------------
+
+- Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
+ as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.
+
+- Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and
+ internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
+ and UNICODE character sets.
+
+- New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
+ been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
+ but the new auth system is also very configurable.
+
+- 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.
+
+- new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
+ somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
+ to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
+ subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
+ implemented.
+
+- Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
+ improves error handling a lot.
+
+- better w2k printing support including publishing printer
+ attributes in active directory
+
+- new loadable RPC modules
+
+- new dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance
+
+- support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain
+
+- support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
+ domain controllers
+
+Plus lots of other changes!
+
+
+Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
+---------------------------------------
+
+Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
+joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
+
+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.
+
+
+Changes in alpha24:
+-------------------
+
+ LDAP Schema Changes
+ -------------------
+ A new objectclass (sambaSamAccount) has been introduced to replace the old
+ sambaAccount. This change aids us in the renaming of attributes to prevent
+ clashes with attributes from other vendors. There is a conversion script
+ (examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount) to modify and LDIF file to the new schema.
+
+ Example:
+
+ $ ldapsearch .... -b "ou=people,dc=..." > old.ldif
+ $ convertSambaAccount <DOM SID> old.ldif new.ldif
+
+ The <DOM SID> can be obtained by running 'net getlocalsid <DOMAINNAME>'
+ on the Samba PDC as root.
+
+ The sambaDomain and sambaGroupMapping objects have also been modified
+ to use the new attribute naming conventions as well. There are no
+ conversion scripts for this data since the old schema was never published
+ in a stable release.
+
+ The old sambaAccount schema may still be used by specifying the
+ "ldapsam_compat" passdb backend.
+
+ Parameters
+ ----------
+
+ Removed Parameters
+
+ * total print jobs
+
+ Known Issues
+ ------------
+
+ The following are known issues with this release and will be corrected
+ in future versions:
+
+ 1) Automatically generating accounts for users and groups from
+ trusted domains when Samba is acting as a PDC
+ 2) Maintaining idmap ID's in a LDAP directory in order to implement
+ a distributed winbind solution
+
+ ChangeLog
+ ---------
+
+ See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many
+ smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
+
+1) Fix policy handle leak and crash bug in rpc printing code
+2) Changed the order of checking whether a SID is a UID or a GID
+ in posix acls
+3) Merge of winbind nss cleanup from HEAD branch
+4) Inclusion of idmap backend for mapping SIDs to uids/gids
+5) Fix for very subtle POSIX lock interaction race condition
+6) Re-fix close of delete semantics
+7) Inclusion of schannel functionality (merged from SAMBA_TNG)
+8) Remove unixsam passdb
+9) Add debugging code to decode the Win2k PAC
+10) Very large amounts of documentation fixes (including the move from
+ SGML->XML DocBook)
+11) Fix support for local_password_change() in pam_smbpass
+12) Ensure we have WinXP-like semantics for checking TIDs and FIDs
+13) More print job change notify fixes
+14) Handle deep referrals in MS-DFS code
+15) Add echo named pipe for testing purposes
+16) Workaround streams leak on SCO openserver 5.0.x
+17) Lots of popt changes to command line tools
+18) Use the new modules system for passdb (merge from HEAD)
+19) Inclusion of editreg.c for editing Windows NT+registry files off line
+20) Fix byte ordering when using CIDR notation in hosts allow/deny (again)
+21) Replace smbgroupedit tool with 'net groupmap'
+22) Merge SMB Signing, NTLMv2 and NTLMSSP fixes from HEAD branch
+23) Merge of trusted domain code from HEAD branch
+24) Fix up crashes in lanman printing code (e.g. disable spoolss = yes)
+25) Store the IP address in the utmp record when possible
+26) Fix bug in FindFirst code and OS/2 clients
+27) Fix local master browsing bug when synchronizing browse lists
+28) Fix browse synchronization when primary interface is no listed
+ in the interfaces list and "bind interfaces only" is enabled.
+29) removed ldapsam_nua and tdbsam_nua passdb backends (replaced by idmap)
+30) Include support for storing next rid value in LDAP using a
+ sambaDomain object
+31) Removed "printing = SOFTQ" option
+32) Fix winbindd dual mode
+33) Revert from wins.tdb back to wins.dat (flat text file)
+34) More Trust relationship fixes
+35) More quota fixes (including server support for NT quota info levels)
+36) VFS API has been stabilized and is feature full for final release
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