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- Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre2
- Oct XX, 2007
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.2.0pre3
+ Apr 25, 2008
=================================
-This is the second preview release of Samba 3.2.0. This is *not*
+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/.
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).
+ 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 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
========================================
-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
==============================
Samba is now able to use a registry based configuration backed to
supplement smb.conf setting. This feature may be enabled by setting
-"include = registry" and "registry shares = yes" in the [global]
-section of smb.conf and may be managed using the "net conf" command.
+"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
+More information may be obtained from the smb.conf(5) and net(8) man
pages.
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);
+
+
######################################################################
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
+ 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.
+ * 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.
+
+
+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.
+
+
+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.
* 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>
- * 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 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.
+ 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()
+ * 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>
* 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:
* 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.
- * 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>
- * 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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