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Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
- Oct XX, 2007
+ Mar 04, 2008
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This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
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
-
+ o Support for IPv6 in the server, and client tools and libraries.
+ o Support for storing alternate data streams in xattrs.
+ o Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
+ o Support for Vista clients authenticating via Kerberos.
Winbind and Active Directory Integration:
o Full support for Windows 2003 cross-forest, transitive trusts
- and one-way domain 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.
+ o New LGPL Winbind client library (libwbclient.so).
+ Joining:
+ o New NetApi library for domain join related queries (libnetapi.so)
+ and example GTK+ Domain join gui.
+ o New client and server support for remotely joining and unjoining
+ Domains.
+ o Support for joining into Windows 2008 domains.
Users & Groups:
o New ldb backend for local group mapping tables
Documentation:
- o Inclusion of an HTLM version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
+ o Inclusion of an HTML version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
from O'Reilly Publishing.
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 improve compatibility with other
-licenses and to make it easier to adopt internationally, and is an
+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
+The original announcement is available on-line at
http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
New Security Defaults for Authentication
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-Support for LanMan passwords is now disabled in both client and server
-applications. Additionally, clear text authentication requests are
+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
+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
==============================
Both the Python bindings and the libmsrpc shared library have been
removed from the tree due to lack of an official maintainer.
+As smbfs is no longer supported in current kernel versions, smbmount has
+been removed in this Samba version. Please use cifs (mount.cifs) instead.
+See examples/scripts/mount/mount.smbfs as an example for a wrapper which
+calls mount.cifs instead of smbmount/mount.smbfs.
+
+
+Modified API for libsmbclient
+==============================================================================
+
+Maintaining ABI compatibility for libsmbclient has become increasingly
+difficult to accomplish, while also keeping the code organization such that it
+is easily readable. Towards the goal of maintaining ABI compatibility and
+also keeping the code easy to maintain and enhance, the API has been enhanced.
+In particular, the fields in the SMBCCTX context structure are no longer
+intended to be read/write by the user, and are marked as deprecated. An
+application that previously accessed the members of the SMBCCTX context
+structure will now encounter warnings if recompiled. This is intentional, to
+encourage implementation of the small changes required for the new interface.
+The number of changes is expected to be quite small for the vast majority of
+applications, and no changes need be made for many applications. The changes
+required for KDE (konqueror) to conform to the new interface, for example, are
+only four lines in only one file.
+
+Instead of the application manually changing or reading values in the context
+structure, there are now setter and getter functions for each configurable
+member in that structure. Similarly, the smbc_option_get() and
+smbc_option_set() functions are deprecated in favor of the setter/getter
+interface. The setters and getters are all documented in libsmbclient.h
+under these comment blocks:
+
+ Getters and setters for CONFIGURATION
+ Getters and setters for OPTIONS
+ Getters and setters for FUNCTIONS
+ Callable functions for files
+ Callable functions for directories
+ Callable functions applicable to both files and directories
+
+Example changes that may be required to eliminate "deprecated" warnings:
+
+ /* Set the debug level */
+ context->debug = 99;
+changes to:
+ smbc_setDebug(context, 99);
+
+ /* Specify the authentication callback function */
+ context->callbacks.auth_fn = auth_smbc_get_data;
+changes to:
+ smbc_setFunctionAuthData(context, auth_smbc_get_data);
+
+ /* Specify the new-style authentication callback with context parameter */
+ smbc_option_set("auth_function", auth_smbc_get_data_with_ctx);
+changes to:
+ smbc_setFunctionAuthDataWithContext(context, auth_smbc_get_data_with_ctx);
+
+ /* Set kerberos flags */
+ context->flags = (SMB_CTX_FLAG_USE_KERBEROS |
+ SMB_CTX_FLAG_FALLBACK_AFTER_KERBEROS);
+changes to:
+ smbc_setOptionUseKerberos(context, 1);
+ smbc_setOptionFallbackAfterKerberos(context, 1);
+
+
######################################################################
config backend New file
ctdb socket New ""
debug class New No
+ administrative share New No
lanman auth Changed Default No
ldap debug level New 0
ldap debug threshold New 10
mangle map Removed
+ min receive file size New 0
open files database hashsize Removed
- read bmpx Removed
+ read bmpx Removed
registry shares New No
winbind expand groups New 1
winbind rpc only New No
* BUG 5063: Fix build on RHEL5.
* New smb.conf parameter "config backend = registry" to enable registry
only configuration.
+ * Move "net conf" functionality into a separate module libnet_conf.c
+ * Restructure registry code, eliminating the dynamic overlay.
+ Make use of reg_api instead of backend code in most places.
+ * Add support for intercepting LDAP libraries' debug output and print
+ it in Samba's debugging system.
* Libreplace fixes.
* Build fixes.
* Initial support for using subsystems as shared libraries.
* Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
* Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
(based on work from Andreas Schneider).
- * Additional work on the session data privacy for clients
- implementing the Unix CIFS Extensions.
+ * Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
(including calls from "net dom" command).
* Add libnetapi.so library for joining domains including
sample GTK+ app.
+ * Fixes for Vista SP1 Kerberos authdata handling to only pickup
+ the PAC.
+ * Various error code and error message fixes.
+ * Add initial draft of libnetconf to allow programmatic
+ configuration changes.
+ * Add libnet_join internal library for programmatically joining
+ and unjoining Domains.
+ * Add various fixes and new calls to libnetapi.so library.
+ * Various fixes for DsGetDcName and conversion to IDL based
+ structures.
+ * Fixes for pidl to correctly generate WERROR based client calls.
+ * Fixes for pidl to generate output that complies to coding
+ conventions.
+ * Various IDL fixes.
+ * Add ads_get_joinable_ous() to libads to get list of joinable ous.
+ * Add get_logon_hours_from_pdb() to comply with new IDL based
+ structures.
+ * Add debugging capabilities to dump AD connections to libads
+ (using ndr_print).
+ * Add "dump-domain-list" command for smbcontrol to retrieve better
+ debugging information out of winbindd.
+ * Migration of the entire client and server DCE/RPC code to IDL
+ based structures and autogenerated code for DSSETUP, LSA, SAMR
+ and NETLOGON.
+ * Started migration of client and server DCE/RPC code to IDL based
+ structures and autogenerated code for NTSSVC, SVCCTL and
+ EVENTLOG.
+ * Use IDL and autogenerated code for samlogoncache and Kerberos
+ PAC handling.
+ * Various fixes and cleanup of Kerberos PAC handling.
+ * Fix segfault in _srv_net_file_enum.
+ * Conversion of client join and unjoin code to libnet_join.
+ * Add remote join/unjoin server-side implementation.
+ * Removed a lot of code which has become obsolete.
o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
for better adherence to the FHS standard.
-o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* Add talloc_stackframe() and talloc_pool() features.
* Removal of pstring data type.
* Add generic a in-memory cache.
* Import the Linux red-black tree implementation.
* Remove large amount of global variables.
- * 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()
+ * 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().
+ * Speed up the smbclient "get" command
+ * Add the aio_fork module
+o Derrell Lipman <derrell@samba.org>
+ * Modified libsmbclient API for more easily maintaining ABI compatibility
+ while adding new features to libsmbclient.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
- * Fixes for libreplace.
+ * Refactor Winbind internal parent-child interface tables
+ to achieve better unit testing support.
+ * Add nss_wrapper API for local Winbind unit tests.
+ * Networking fixes to the libreplace library.
* Pidl fixes.
+ * Remove unused Winbind pipe calls.
* 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 client sends a valid pointer, but the server
o Andreas Schneider <anschneider@suse.de>
* Don't restart winbind if a corrupted tdb is found during
initialization.
+ * Fix Windows 2008 (Longhorn) join.
+ * Add share parameter "administrative share".
o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
* Add 'net rap file user'.
* Change LDAP search filter to find machine accounts which
are not located in the user suffix.
+ * Remove smbmount.
o David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
* Additional portability support for building shared libraries.
+o Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
+ * Get Samba version or capability information from Windows user space.
+
Original 3.2.0pre1 commits:
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* 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
+ * 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
o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
- * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
+ * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
servers.
* 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
+ (based on work by Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> and James
Peach).
o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
* Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
- to come up.
+ to come up.
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* 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
+ * Remove static incoming and outgoing buffers from core server SMB
packet processing code.
* Add "net sam rights" command.
o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
- * Fixes for mount.cfs Linux utility.
+ * Fixes for mount.cifs Linux utility.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
- * Added vfs_vfsacl module.
+ * Added vfs_zfsacl module.
o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
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