WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 beta1 June 7 2003 ============================== This is a beta release of Samba 3.0.0. This is a non-production release intended for testing purposes. Use at your own risk. The purpose of this beta 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 beta releases, and to provide high quality feedback on what needs fixing. Samba 3.0 is feature complete. However there is still some final work to be done on certain pieces of functionality. Please refer to the section on "Known Issues" for more details. Major new features: ------------------- 1) Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos. 2) 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. 3) 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. 4) 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. 5) 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. 6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot. 7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing printer attributes in active directory 8) New loadable RPC modules 9) New dual-daemon winbindd support (-B) for better performance 10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs 11) Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers 12) Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using an LDAP directory for storing SID to uid/gid mappings 13) Major updates to the Samba documentation tree. Plus lots of other improvements! Additional Documentation ------------------------ Please refer to Samba documentation tree (including in the docs/ subdirectory) for extensive explanations of installing, configuring and maintaining Samba 3.0 servers and clients. It is advised to begin with the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for overviews and specific tasks (the current book is up to approximately 400 pages) and to refer to the various man pages for information on individual options. ###################################################################### Upgrading from Samba 2.2 ######################## This section is provided to help administrators understand the details involved with upgrading a Samba 2.2 server to Samba 3.0 Building -------- Many of the options to the GNU autoconf script have been modified in the 3.0 release. The most noticeable are * removal of --with-tdbsam (is now included by default; see section on passdb backends and authentication for more details) * --with-ldapsam is now on used to provided backward compatible parameters for LDAP enabled Samba 2.2 servers. Refer to the passdb backend and authentication section for more details * inclusion of non-standard passdb modules may be enabled using --with-expsam. This includes an XML backend, a mysql backend, and a NIS backend. * removal of --with-msdfs (is now enabled by default) * removal of --with-ssl (no longer supported) * --with-utmp now defaults to 'yes' on supported systems * --with-sendfile-support is now enabled by default on supported systems Parameters ---------- This section contains a brief listing of changes to smb.conf options in the 3.0.0 release. Please refer to the smb.conf(5) man page for complete descriptions of new or modified parameters. Removed Parameters (order alphabetically): * admin log * alternate permissions * character set * client codepage * code page directory * coding system * domain admin group * domain guest group * force unknown acl user * nt smb support * post script * printer driver * printer driver file * printer driver location * status * total print jobs * use rhosts * valid chars * vfs options New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function): Remote management ----------------- * abort shutdown script * shutdown script User and Group Account Management --------------------------------- * add group script * add machine script * add user to group script * algorithmic rid base * delete group script * delete user from group script * passdb backend * set primary group script Authentication -------------- * auth methods * ads server * realm Protocol Options ---------------- * client lanman auth * client NTLMv2 auth * client schannel * client signing * client use spnego * disable netbios * ntlm auth * paranoid server security * server schannel * smb ports * use spnego File Service ------------ * get quota command * hide special files * hide unwriteable files * hostname lookups * kernel change notify * mangle prefix * msdfs proxy * set quota command * use sendfile * vfs objects Printing -------- * max reported print jobs UNICODE and Character Sets -------------------------- * display charset * dos charset * unicode * unix charset SID to uid/gid Mappings ----------------------- * idmap backend * idmap gid * idmap only * idmap uid LDAP ---- * ldap delete dn * ldap group suffix * ldap idmap suffix * ldap machine suffix * ldap passwd sync * ldap trust ids * ldap user suffix General Configuration --------------------- * preload modules * privatedir Modified Parameters (changes in behavior): * encrypt passwords (enabled by default) * mangling method (set to 'hash2' by default) * passwd chat * passwd program * restrict anonymous (integer value) * security (new 'ads' value) * strict locking (enabled by default) * winbind cache time (increased to 5 minutes) * winbind uid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap uid') * winbind gid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap gid') Databases --------- This section contains brief descriptions of any new databases introduced in Samba 3.0. Please remember to backup your existing ${lock directory}/*tdb before upgrading to Samba 3.0. Samba will upgrade databases as they are opened (if necessary), but downgrading from 3.0 to 2.2 is an unsupported path. Name Description Backup? ---- ----------- ------- account_policy User policy settings yes gencache Generic caching db no group_mapping Mapping table from Windows yes groups/SID to unix groups idmap new ID map table from SIDS yes to UNIX uids/gids. namecache Name resolution cache entries no netlogon_unigrp Cache of universal group no membership obtained when operating as a member of a Windows domain printing/*.tdb Cached output from 'lpq no command' created on a per print service basis registry Read-only samba registry skeleton no that provides support for exporting various db tables via the winreg RPCs Changes in Behavior ------------------- The following issues are known changes in behavior between Samba 2.2 and Samba 3.0 that may affect certain installations of Samba. 1) When operating as a member of a Windows domain, Samba 2.2 would map any users authenticated by the remote DC to the 'guest account' if a uid could not be obtained via the getpwnam() call. Samba 3.0 rejects the connection as NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE. There is no current work around to re-establish the 2.2 behavior. 2) When adding machines to a Samba 2.2 controlled domain, the 'add user script' was used to create the UNIX identity of the machine trust account. Samba 3.0 introduces a new 'add machine script' that must be specified for this purpose. Samba 3.0 will not fall back to using the 'add user script' in the absence of an 'add machine script' ###################################################################### Passdb Backends and Authentication ################################## There have been a few new changes that Samba administrators should be aware of when moving to Samba 3.0. 1) encrypted passwords have been enabled by default in order to inter-operate better with out-of-the-box Windows client installations. This does mean that either (a) a samba account must be created for each user, or (b) 'encrypt passwords = no' must be explicitly defined in smb.conf. 2) Inclusion of new 'security = ads' option for integration with an Active Directory domain using the native Windows Kerberos 5 and LDAP protocols. Samba 3.0 also includes the possibility of setting up chains of authentication methods (auth methods) and account storage backends (passdb backend). Please refer to the smb.conf(5) man page for details. While both parameters assume sane default values, it is likely that you will need to understand what the values actually mean in order to ensure Samba operates correctly. The recommended passdb backends at this time are * smbpasswd - 2.2 compatible flat file format * tdbsam - attribute rich database intended as an smbpasswd replacement for stand alone servers * ldapsam - attribute rich account storage and retrieval backend utilizing an LDAP directory. * ldapsam_compat - a 2.2 backward compatible LDAP account backend Certain functions of the smbpasswd(8) tool have been split between the new smbpasswd(8) utility, the net(8) tool, and the new pdbedit(8) utility. See the respective man pages for details. ###################################################################### LDAP #### This section outlines the new features affecting Samba / LDAP integration. New Schema ---------- A new object class (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 old.ldif new.ldif The can be obtained by running 'net getlocalsid ' on the Samba PDC as root. The old sambaAccount schema may still be used by specifying the "ldapsam_compat" passdb backend. However, the sambaAccount and associated attributes have been moved to the historical section of the schema file and must be uncommented before use if needed. The 2.2 object class declaration for a sambaAccount has not changed in the 3.0 samba.schema file. Other new object classes and their uses include: * sambaDomain - domain information used to allocate rids for users and groups as necessary. The attributes are added in 'ldap suffix' directory entry automatically if an idmap uid/gid range has been set and the 'ldapsam' passdb backend has been selected. * sambaGroupMapping - an object representing the relationship between a posixGroup and a Windows group/SID. These entries are stored in the 'ldap group suffix' and managed by the 'net groupmap' command. * sambaUnixIdPool - created in the 'ldap idmap suffix' entry automatically and contains the next available 'idmap uid' and 'idmap gid' * sambaIdmapEntry - object storing a mapping between a SID and a UNIX uid/gid. These objects are created by the idmap_ldap module as needed. New Suffix for Searching ------------------------ The following new smb.conf parameters have been added to aid in directing certain LDAP queries when 'passdb backend = ldapsam://...' has been specified. * ldap suffix - used to search for user and computer accounts * ldap user suffix - used to store user accounts * ldap machine suffix - used to store machine trust accounts * ldap group suffix - location of posixGroup/sambaGroupMapping entries * ldap idmap suffix - location of sambaIdmapEntry objects If an 'ldap suffix' is defined, it will be appended to all of the remaining sub-suffix parameters. In this case, the order of the suffix listings in smb.conf is important. Always place the 'ldap suffix' first in the list. Due to a limitation in Samba's smb.conf parsing, you should not surround the DN's with quotation marks. IdMap LDAP support ------------------ Samba 3.0 supports an ldap backend for the idmap subsystem. The following options would inform Samba that the idmap table should be stored on the directory server onterose in the "ou=idmap,dc=plainjoe, dc=org" partition. [global] ... idmap backend = ldap:ldap://onterose/ ldap idmap suffix = ou=idmap,dc=plainjoe,dc=org idmap uid = 40000-50000 idmap gid = 40000-50000 This configuration allows winbind installations on multiple servers to share a uid/gid number space, thus avoiding the interoperability problems with NFS that were present in Samba 2.2. ###################################################################### Known Issues ############ * One such limitation that is worth mentioning (and will be corrected before the actual stable 3.0.0 release is the dead lock problem with running winbindd on a Samba PDC in order to allocate uids and gids for users and groups in a trusted domain. When the Samba domain is acting as the trusted domain to a Windows NT 4.0 domain, there are no known issues. * The smbldap perl scripts for managing user entries in an LDAP directory have not be updated to function with the Samba 3.0 schema changes. This (or an equivalent solution) work is planned to be completed prior to the stable 3.0.0 release. Please refer to https://bugzilla.samba.org/ for a current list of bugs filed against the Samba 3.0 codebase. ###################################################################### 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. A new bugzilla installation has been established to help support the Samba 3.0 community of users. This server, located at https://bugzilla.samba.org/, will replace the existing jitterbug server and the old http://bugs.samba.org now points to the new bugzilla server.