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
Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
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
+distributed. It has been updated to improve compatibility 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.
Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
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+o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
+ * Added support for an SMB_CONF_PATH environment variable
+ containing the path to smb.conf.
+ * Various fixes to ntlm_auth.
+ * make test now supports more extensive SPOOLSS testing using vlp.
+ * Correctly handle mixed-case hostnames in NTLMv2 authentication.
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * Fixes for libreplace.
+ * Build fixes.
+ * Add nss_wrapper support.
+ * Start and test winbindd by 'make test'
+ * Split up child_dispatch_table into domain, idmap and locator tables
+ in winbindd.
+ * Fix for a crash bug in pidl generated client code.
+ This could have happend with [in,out,unique] pointers
+ when the clients sends a valid pointer, but the server
+ reponse with a NULL pointer (as samba-3.0.26a do for some calls).
+ * Change NTSTAUS into enum ndr_err_code in librpc/ndr.
+ * Remove unused calls in the struct based winbindd protocol.
+ * Add --configfile option to wbinfo.
+ * Convert winbind_env_set(), winbind_on() and winbind_off() into macros.
+ * Return rids and other_sids arrays in WBFLAG_PAM_INFO3_TEXT mode.
+ * Implement wbcErrorString() and wbcAuthenticateUserEx()
+ * Convert auth_winbind to use wbcAuthenticateUserEx()
Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
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using remote idmap backends.
* Fix LookupNames and LookupSids to use the same resolution
heuristics as Windows XP.
- * Fix lockups in Winbind when running nscd.
+ * Fix lookups 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
* 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>
o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
* Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
* Cleanup internal passdb functions.
+ * Improve error messages of net subcommands.
+ * Add 'net rap file user'.
+ * Change LDAP search filter to find machine accounts which
+ are not located in the user suffix.
o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>