- =================================
- Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre3
- Apr 25, 2008
- =================================
-
-This is the third preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
-intended for production environments and is designed for testing
-purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
-system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
-
-Please be aware that Samba is now distributed under the version 3
-of the new GNU General Public License. You may refer to the COPYING
-file that accompanies these release notes for further licensing details.
-
-Major enhancements in Samba 3.2.0 include:
-
- File Serving:
- o Use of IDL generated parsing layer for several DCE/RPC
- interfaces.
- o Removal of the 1024 byte limit on pathnames and 256 byte limit on
- filename components to honor the MAX_PATH setting from the host OS.
- o Introduction of a registry based configuration system.
- o Improved CIFS Unix Extensions support.
- o Experimental support for file serving clusters.
- 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.
- o Support for userPrincipalName logons via pam_winbind and NSS
- lookups.
- 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).
- o Support for establishing interdomain trust relationships with
- Windows 2008.
-
- 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
- o Raised level of security defaults for authentication operations.
- o New NetApi library for user account related queries.
-
-
- Documentation:
- o Inclusion of an HTML version of the 3rd edition of "Using Samba"
- from O'Reilly Publishing.
-
-
-Now Licensed under the GNU GPLv3
-================================
-
-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 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.
-
-The original announcement is available on-line at
-
- http://news.samba.org/announcements/samba_gplv3/
-
-
-New Security Defaults for Authentication
-========================================
-
-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
-updated.
-
-
-Registry Configuration Backend
-==============================
-
-Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
-supplement smb.conf setting. This feature may be enabled by setting
-"config backend = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
-section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
-
-More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
-pages.
-
-
-Removed Features
+What's new in Samba 4 alpha20
+=============================
+
+Samba 4.0 will be the next version of the Samba suite and incorporates
+all the technology found in both the Samba4 alpha series and the
+stable 3.x series. The primary additional features over Samba 3.6 are
+support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000
+and above.
+
+SECURITY RELEASE
================
-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);
-
-
-
-
-######################################################################
-Changes
-#######
-
-smb.conf changes
-----------------
-
- Parameter Name Description Default
- -------------- ----------- -------
- client lanman auth Changed Default No
- client ldap sasl wrapping New plain
- client plaintext auth Changed Default No
- clustering New No
- cluster addresses New ""
- 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
- registry shares New No
- winbind expand groups New 1
- winbind rpc only New No
-
-
-Changes since 3.2.0pre2:
------------------------
-
-
-o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
- * Fix session setup with security = share.
- * Fix segfault in testparm.
- * Fix several Makefile issues.
- * Fix build of bin/net on Solaris.
- * Reformat the parm table of loadparm to use named initializers.
- * Fix %I macro expansion for IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses.
- * Convert registry.tdb to use dbwrap and fix memleaks.
- * Several make test fixes and improvements.
- * Several libreplace extensions and fixes (portet from v4-0-test).
- * Rename libnet_conf to libsmbconf and introduce backend abstraction layer.
- * Add text backend to libsmbconf, based on params.c.
- * Fix handling of includes in registry libsmbconf backend.
- * Fix net conf import by reading from text backend.
- * Add a "net registry" command to locally access the registry.
- * Add testsuites for libsmbconf and "net registry".
- * Fix Coverity IDs 517, 536, 545.
- * Remove unneeded REGISTRY_HOOKS layer from reghook cache
- to allow plugging one backend to multiple keys more easily.
- * Add smbconf_init dispatcher taking source strings like "backend:path"
- * Fix handling of dangling parameters (without share) in libsmbconf.
- * Introduce special meaning of "include = registry" to complement
- the registry-only configuration of "config backend = registry".
- * Enhance error propagation by making several registry functions
- return WERROR.
- * Fix loading of registry shares in smbd by fixing the token.
- * Fix a segfault in tdb_wrap_log().
-
-
-o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
- * BUG 5311: Fix IPv6 issue with hosts allow/deny settings.
- * BUG 5372: Fix client timeouts in large CUPS installations.
- * Fix problem with nmbd not waiting until interfaces come up.
- * Fix S3 to pass the test_raw_oplock_exclusive3 test.
- * Fix MSDFS bug breaking MS clients in some cases by ensuring
- the target host is ourselves.
- * Rewrite the wrap checks to deal with gcc 4.x optimisations.
-
-
-o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
- * BUG 4235: Prevent ntlm_auth from sending BH responses without a message.
- * Fix one BH message.
-
-
-o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
- * Fix libtdb some to move back towards allowing out of tree builds.
- * Ignore port when pulling IP addr from struct sockaddr_storage..
-
-
-o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
- * Fix build of pam_smbpass.
- * Fix lp_load with an empty registry and "config backend = registry".
- * Fix build targets for bin/net.
- * Fix _dssetup_DsRoleGetPrimaryDomainInformation().
- * Fix the build of cifs.spnego.
- * Migration of the SRVSVC client and server DCE/RPC code to IDL
- based structures and autogenerated code
- * Fix Kerberos session setup with Vista SP1 (ignore PAC type 12)
- * Fix support for vampire of lockout policies and
- for storing dialin/terminal server settings.
- * Fix remote join/unjoin server implementation.
- * BUG 5328: Fix netlogon credential chain with Windows 2008
- (this also fixes joining Windows 2008 with rpc methods).
- * Various fixes for establishing and validating interdomain trust
- relationships with Windows 2008.
- * Use IDL for storing domain controller information in dsgetdcname.
- * Re-arranged internal structure of libnetapi.
- * Add support for domain\dcname syntax in libnetjoin.
- * Add support for browsing/joining OUs in netdomjoin-gui.
- * Add various new calls to libnetapi.
-
-
-o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
- * Add AC_TRY_RUN_STRICT support for Sun Studio compiler.
-
-
-o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
- * Add support for async SMB requests.
- * Add transactions to the dbwrap API.
- * Add "net idmap aclmapset".
- * Change default bufsize to 512k.
- * Fix Coverity IDs 473, 481, 506, 507, 525, 526, 527, 528, 529, 530, 537,
- 538, 547, 548, 551, 552, 553, 554, 555, 557, 558, 559, 563, 564, 567.
- ... and half a ton more
- * Fix some warnings in the tsmsm module.
- * Fix warnings.
- * BUG 4901: Fix "ldap passwd sync = only".
- * BUG 5334: Fix download of empty files using smbclient.
- * BUG 5307: Fix notify changes.
- * BUG 5317: Fix debug output in domain_client_validate.
- * BUG 5338: Fix format string issue in rpcclient.
- * Convert account_pol.tdb and share_info.tdb to dbwrap.
- * Protect group_mapping.tdb ops with transactions.
- * BUG 5366: "passwd program" should work on Solaris 10 again now.
- * A level 25 setuserinfo does change the pwdlastset, fixes XP joins.
- * BUG 5350: A Samba DC trusting NT4 should do an anon session setup.
- * BUG 5375: Fix a segfault with "security=share" and [in]valid users.
- * Fix printing from DOS clients -- introduced by inbuf/outbuf rewrite.
- * Fix wbinfo -a trusted\\user%password on a Samba DC with trusts.
- * BUG 5341: Fix async smbclient get command on Solaris.
- * Make winbind use NetSamLogonEx when possible.
- * Merge fixes in the 3-0-ctdb cluster code.
- * Fix a segfault in snprintf replacement code.
- * Fix a regression for wbinfo --group-info if winbind separator is set
-
-
-o Derrell Lipman <derrell@samba.org>
- * Check for NULL pointers before dereferencing them.
- * Fix use of AuthDataWithContext capability.
-
-
-o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
- * Add dbwrap_tdb2 backend, useful for cluster setups.
- * Add more functions to libwbclient:
- - wbcGetGroups()
- - wbcInterfaceDetails()
- - wbcListUsers()
- - wbcListGroups()
- - wbcLookupUserSids()
- - wbcSetUidMapping()
- - wbcSetGidMapping()
- - wbcSetUidHwm()
- - wbcSetGidHwm()
- - wbcResolveWinsByName()
- - wbcResolveWinsByIP()
- - wbcCheckTrustCredentials()
- * Let wbinfo use libwbclient where possible.
- * Let net use only libwbclient to access winbindd.
- * Make socket wrapper pcap support more portable.
- * Some libreplace backports from v4-0-test.
- * Store the write time in the locking.tdb,
- so that smbd passes the BASE-DELAYWRITE test.
- * Run RAW-SEARCH and BASE-DELAYWRITE by 'make test'.
- * Let each process use its own connection to ctdb
- in cluster mode.
- * Add a reinit_after_fork() helper function to correct
- reinitialize the same things in all cases.
- * Fix a chicken and egg problem with "include = registry".
-
-
-o Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
- * Fix usage message for "net idmap dump".
-
-
-o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
- * Suppress superfluous message.
-
-
-o Marc VanHeyningen <marc.vanheyningen@isilon.com>
- * Coverity fixes.
-
-
-Changes since 3.2.0pre1:
------------------------
-
-o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
- * Add library for access to the registry configuration data.
- * BUG 5023: Separate NFS4 and POSIX ACL code in file access checks.
- * BUG 4308: Fix Excel save operation ACL bug.
- * Refactor and consolidate logic for retrieving the machine
- trust password information.
- * VFS API cleanup (remove redundant parameter).
- * BUG 4801: Correctly implement LSA lookup levels for LookupNames.
- * Add new option "debug class" to control printing of the debug class.
- in debug headers.
- * Enable building of the zfsacl and notify_fam vfs modules.
- * BUG 5083: Fix memleak in solarisacl module.
- * 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.
- Use talloc, tdb, and libnetapi as shared libraries internally.
-
-
-o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
- * Added support for IPv6 client and server connections.
- * Add in the recvfile entry to the VFS layer.
- * Removal of pstring data type.
- * Remove unused utilities: smbctool and rpctorture.
- * Fix service principal detection to match Windows Vista
- (based on work from Andreas Schneider).
- * Encrypted SMB transport in client tools and libraries, and server.
-
-
-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 Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
- * Add Winbind client library.
- * Decouple static linking between smbd and winbindd's client
- interface.
-
-
-o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
- * Enhance client and server remote registry access.
- * Add client calls for remotely joining a computer to a domain
- (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>
- * Integrate 2 out of 3 --with-fhs patches from Debian packaging
- for better adherence to the FHS standard.
-
-
-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().
- * Speed up the smbclient "get" command
- * Add the aio_fork module
- * Fix bug 4901
-
-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>
- * 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.
- * 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
- responds with a NULL pointer (as samba-3.0.26a does for some calls).
- * Change NTSTATUS 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().
-
-
-o James Peach <jpeach@samba.org>
- * Add support for DNS Service Discovery. Based on work from
- Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>.
-
-
-o Andreas Schneider <anschneider@suse.de>
- * Don't restart winbind if a corrupted tdb is found during
- initialization.
- * Fix Windows 2008 (Longhorn) join.
- * Fix crashbug in winbindd.
- * Add share parameter "administrative share".
-
-
-o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
- * 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.
- * Remove smbmount.
-
-
-o David Shaw <dshaw@jabberwocky.com>
- * BUG 5073: Allow "delete readonly = yes" to correctly override
- deletion of a file.
-
-
-o Rishi Srivatsavai <rishisv@gmail.com>
- * Register the smb service with mDNS if mDNS is supported.
- * Add smbclient support for basic mDNS browsing.
-
-
-o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
- * Fix padding between Winbind 32bit/64bit client library in
- the request/response structures.
- * Added a syncops VFS module for file systems which do not
- guarantee meta-data operations are immediately committed to
- disk in stable form.
-
-
-o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
- * 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:
----------------------------
-o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
- * Unified POSIX ACL detection including support for FreeBSD and
- HP-UX.
- * Performance improvements for Winbind's lookup functions (names,
- SIDs, and group membership) when joined to an AD domain.
- * Winbind cache validation support.
- * Store domain trust passwords for Samba domain controller's in
- the domain's passdb backend.
- * Merged \winreg server code from the SAMBA_3_2 development branch.
- * Fixes for libreplace.
- * Implement new registry configuration backend.
+This is a security release in order to address CVE-2012-2111
+(Incorrect permission checks when granting/removing privileges can
+compromise file server security).
+
+o CVE-2012-2111:
+ Samba 3.4.x to 3.6.4 are affected by a
+ vulnerability that allows arbitrary users
+ to modify privileges on a file server.
+
+This is in regards to the smbd file server, which is shipped in Samba
+4.0 alpha. The AD DC is not directly impacted, as the LSA
+implementation differs.
+
+WARNINGS
+========
+Samba4 alpha20 is not a final Samba release, however we are now making
+good progress towards a Samba 4.0 release, of which this is a preview.
+Be aware the this release contains both the technology of Samba 3.6
+(that you can reasonably expect to upgrade existing Samba 3.x releases
+to) and the AD domain controller work previously known as 'samba4'.
-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
- code.
+While binaries for the stable file server are provided in this
+release, for a stable, supported file server, Samba3 domain or AD
+domain member installation, please run a Samba 3.x release, as we are
+still bedding down the new single build system.
+Samba4 is subjected to an awesome battery of tests on an automated
+basis, we have found Samba 4.0 to be very stable in it's behavior.
+However, we still recommend against upgrading production servers from
+Samba 3.x release to Samba 4.0 alpha at this stage.
-o Danilo Almeida <dalmeida@centeris.com>
- * Move the machine account to the OU specified when running "net
- ads join".
+If you are upgrading, or looking to develop, test or deploy Samba 4.0
+alpha releases, you should backup all configuration and data.
+NEW FEATURES
+============
-o Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
- * Tighten authentication protocol defaults in client tools and
- servers.
+Samba 4.0 alpha supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon
+environment used by Windows 2000 and later, so we can do full domain
+join and domain logon operations with these clients.
+Our Domain Controller (DC) implementation includes our own built-in
+LDAP server and Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) as well as the
+Samba3-like logon services provided over CIFS. We correctly generate
+the infamous Kerberos PAC, and include it with the Kerberos tickets we
+issue.
-o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
- * Implement support for one-way trusts and two-way cross-forest
- transitive trust in winbindd.
- * Fixes for Winbind's offline/disconnected logon support when
- using remote idmap backends.
- * Fix LookupNames and LookupSids to use the same resolution
- heuristics as Windows XP.
- * 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
- Peach).
+Samba 4.0 alpha ships with two distinct file servers. The file server
+from the Samba 3.x series is 'smbd', and works with the binaries users
+would expect from that series (nmbd, winbindd, smbpasswd).
+Samba 4.0 also ships with a new file server, which is tuned to match
+the requirements of an AD domain controller. Users should not use the
+file server in the 'samba' binary for non-DC related tasks.
-o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
- * Additional support for decoding and downloading group policy
- objects from Active Directory.
- * Improvements to "net ads keytab" command.
- * Fixes for linking against Heimdal Kerberos client libs.
- * Support LDAP range retrieval searches.
- * Fixes for failure to refresh user ticket caches in Winbind.
- * UPN logon support in pam_winbind.
- * Add KDC locator plugin for MIT kerberos 1.6 or later.
+A new scripting interface has been added to Samba 4, allowing Python
+programs to interface to Samba's internals, and many tools and
+internal workings of the DC code is now implemented in python.
-o Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
- * Allow SIGTERM to cause nmbd to exit while awaiting a interface
- to come up.
+CHANGES SINCE alpha19
+=====================
+For a list of changes since alpha 19, please see the git log.
-o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
- * Merge experimental cluster support patches from the ctdb branch.
- * Add tdb storage abstraction for ctdb.
- * Use IDL for internal message passing system.
- * 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
- packet processing code.
- * Add "net sam rights" command.
+$ git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git
+$ cd samba.git
+$ git log samba-4.0.0alpha19..samba-4.0.0alpha20
+Some major user-visible changes include:
-o Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
- * Fixes for mount.cifs Linux utility.
+Improvements to the 'samba-tool domain samba3upgrade' and
+samba_upgradedns tools
+Stability improvements in the Samba4 winbind implementation (that
+used in the AD DC mode).
-o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
- * Fixes for libreplace.
- * Add support for LDAP digital signing policy.
- * Experimental clustered file system support.
+The BIND 9 DLZ plugin is now compatible with both BIND 9.8, and BIND 9.9.
+dbcheck and runtime protection for the fSMORoleOwner attribute. This
+allows us to recover from a situation where the fSMORoleOwner is
+deleted.
-o Lars Mueller <lars@samba.org>
- * Makefile and build fixes.
- * Add pam_pwd_expire for pam_winbind (original patch from Andreas
- Schneider).
+Support for storing the posixAccount and other auxiliary objectClass
+values (the values are not used by Samba as an AD DC at this stage,
+but may be used by clients).
-o James Peach <jpeach@apple.com>
- * Fixes for setgroups() and *BSD and Darwin.
- * Support membership of >16 groups on Darwin.
+Some major but less visible changes include:
+Continued early implementation work on the SMB 2.2 protocol client and server as
+the team improves and develops support these new protocols.
-o Jiri Sasek <Jiri.Sasek@Sun.COM>
- * Added vfs_zfsacl module.
+Initial work to build Samba using MIT kerberos in the top level waf
+build system. This is not complete at this time, but good progress is
+being made.
-o Karolin Seeger <ks@sernet.de>
- * Add deletelocalgroup and unmapunixgroup subcommand to "net sam".
- * Cleanup internal passdb functions.
+KNOWN ISSUES
+============
+- upgradeprovision should not be run when upgrading to this release
+ from a recent release. No important database format changes have
+ been made since alpha16.
-o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
- * Fixes for IDmap and Passdb backends.
+- Installation on systems without a system iconv (and developer
+ headers at compile time) is known to cause errors when dealing with
+ non-ASCII characters.
+- In some situations, group members may not be upgraded by the
+ samba-tool domain samba3upgrade tool
-o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
- * Port ldb from the Samba 4 tree and add ldb group mapping plugin.
- * Move several file serving related tdb files to use the dbwrap
- API internally.
- * Cleanup the GPFS VFS plugin.
- * Experimental clustered file system support.
+- Domain member support in the 'samba' binary is in it's infancy, and
+ is not comparable to the support found in winbindd. As such, do not
+ use the 'samba' binary (provided for the AD server) on a member
+ server.
+- There is no printing support in the 'samba' binary (use smbd instead)
-o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
- * Implement NDR basic to support utilizing IDL files from Samba 4
- tree for general DCE/RPC parsing stubs.
+- There is no NetBIOS browsing support (network neighbourhood) in the
+ 'samba' binary (use nmbd and smbd instead)
+- Clock Synchronisation is critical. Many 'wrong password' errors are
+ actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
+ and server. (The NTP work in the previous alphas are partly to assist
+ with this problem).
+- The DRS replication code may fail. Please contact the team if you
+ experience issues with DRS replication, as we have fixed many issues
+ here in response to feedback from our production users.
-######################################################################
+RUNNING Samba 4.0 as an AD DC
+=============================
+
+A short guide to setting up Samba 4 as an AD DC can be found on the wiki:
+
+ http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO
+
+#######################################
Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
#######################################
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. All bug reports should
-be filed under the Samba 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
+be filed under the Samba 4.0 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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