- WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha24
- 14th May 2003
- ==============================
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3 SVN
+ ========================
-This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
-Use at your own risk.
+This file is NOT maintained but will be created during releases.
+See the SAMBA_3_0_RELEASE branch for the current WHATSNEW.
-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 alpha23:
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-
- 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)
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