- WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.0.0 beta1
- ==============================
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha22
+ 4th March 2003
+ ==============================
-This is a MAJOR new release of Samba, the UNIX based SMB/CIFS file
-and print server for Windows systems.
+This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
+Use at your own risk.
-There have been many changes in Samba since the last major release,
-1.9.18. These have mainly been in the areas of performance and
-SMB protocol correctness. In addition, a Web based GUI interface
-for configuring Samba has been added.
+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.
-In addition, Samba has been re-written to help portability to
-other POSIX-based systems, based on the GNU autoconf tool.
+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 alpha22:
+-------------------
+
+ Added Parameters
+
+ * client NTLMv2 auth
+ * client lanman auth
+ * client signing
+ * client use spnego
+ * max reported print jobs
+ * msdfs proxy
+
+
+ See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many
+ smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
+
+1) remove the global_myname string and replace with wrapper function
+ global_myname()
+2) create vfs/ and pdb/ subdirectories for library installs
+3) Fixup of ordered cleanup of get_dc_list()
+4) Added more autoconf tests for Stratus VOS
+5) Fixed nasty bug where file writes with start offsets in the
+ range 0x80000000 -> 0xFFFFFFFF would fail as they were being cast
+ from IVAL (uint32) to SMB_OFF_T (off_t or off64_t, both *signed*
+ types). The sign extension would cause the offset to be treated
+ as negative.
+6) Add support to automatically retrieve the dns host name and domain
+ name of an AD server
+7) Add support for PRINTER_INFO_7 and publishing printer attributes
+ in active directory
+8) Fix for 64 bit issues with oplocks and allocation size
+9) Remove assert(count ==1) for multi-homed PDCs when resolving
+ DOMAIN<0x1b>
+10) Ensure that change_trust_account_password() always talks to
+ the PDC
+11) Add some docs on CUPS printing
+12) Fix rpcclient querygroup command
+13) The _abs time functions should not be converting from/to GMT
+14) Fix broken incremental tar in smbclient
+15) Adding supporting code for better testing using Valgrind
+16) Fix for old DOS client when veto files is set to /.*/
+17) Add win32 utility to query driver capabilities to publish
+ (examples/printing/prtpub.c)
+18) Fix memory leak when constructing an driver_level_6 structure and
+ no dependent files
+19) Add some friendly versions of NT_STATUS codes
+20) Protect nmbd against malformed reply packets
+21) Removal of unpopular winbind client environment variable
+22) Add msdfs proxy functionality; a CIFS share can directly be a
+ stand-in for another share, and when clients connect to the first
+ share, they will be redirected to the proxied share
+23) Make Samba compile cleanly with -Wwrite-strings
+24) Add new timegm() that actually works on solaris
+25) Add support for running smbd, nmbd, & winbindd under the daemontools
+ package
+26) Move user password changes into the NTSTATUS era, and add support
+ for the 'min password age' and 'min passwd len' concepts
+27) Add new gencache based namecache code
+28) Add profiles utility support to Samba 3.0.x
+29) Fix open problem with changing attributes on an existing file
+30) Efficiency fixes for internal messaging system
+31) Make sure to update print queue cache during timeout_processing()
+ to send notify events
+32) Make -i flag work like it did in 2.2
+33) Merge some rpcclient and net functionality from HEAD
+34) Add support for compiling with Heimdal kerberos libraries
+35) Connect to the actual netbios name in smb.conf and not LOCALHOST
+36) Add support for CUPS-PRINTER_CLASS
+37) Add ntlm_auth tool and update NTLMSSP support
+38) require Autoconf 2.53 and remove configure from CVS
+39) Check for too many processes *before* the fork
+40) Fix delete on close semantics to match W2K.
+41) merge desired_access for open_printer_ex from HEAD, allowing
+ cupsaddsmb to work again!
+42) Add support for dynamic RPC modules
+43) wrap all cm_get_XX calls and their subsequent requests in a retry loop
+ in case we've temporarily lost connection to the DC. Makes winbindd
+ more reliable
+44) Optimize user_ok() and user_in_group() when verifying group membership
+45) Add NTLMv2 client code (that works) and some SMB signing fixes
+46) Add caching of PRINTER_INFO_2 structures to open printer handles
+47) Add 1/3 second delay in OpenPrinter() reply to trigger a LAN/WAN
+ optimization in Windows 2000 clients
+48) Add "WinXP" to the possible values of the %a variable
+49) Fix to allow blocking lock notification to be done rapidly (no wait for
+ smb -> smb lock release). Adds new PENDING_LOCK type to lockdb (does
+ not interfere with existing locks)
+50) Limit the unix domain sockets used by winbindd (also solves FD_SETSIZE
+ problem in winbindd to boot !). Adds a "last_access" field to winbindd
+ connections, and will close the oldest idle connection once the number
+ of open connections goes over WINBINDD_MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_CLIENTS (defined
+ in local.h as 200 currently)
+51) Limit the number of print jobs returned in EnumJobs()
+
+
+
+ ===============================
+
+Changes in older alpha releases follow:
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Changes in alpha21:
+-------------------
+
+1) Numerous documentation updates including new Samba FAQ
+2) Fixed logic error in checking wins server lists
+3) Added more Solaris sendfile checks
+4) Added --with-ldapsam for compatibility with 2.2.x Samba/LDAP setups
+5) Add new client side support the Win2k LSARPC UUID in rpcbinds
+ Detect a native mode Win2k DC when in "security = domain"
+6) Include Domain Local Groups in listing when a member of a native
+ mode Win2k domain
+7) Fix ACL inheritance problem
+8) Register <0x1c> name on unicast subnet
+9) Removed stat() call in lp_add_home()
+10) Change default of max_xmit to match W2K. Ensure NT negprot uses it
+11) Merge the new ACL mapping code from Andreas Gruenbacher
+12) Removed make_printerdef tool from build
+13) Fix fd leak on printer queue tdb's
+14) Better error/status logging in both the pam_winbind client and
+ winbindd_pam
+15) Fix fd leak with kernel change notify
+16) Fix slowdown because of enumerating all print queues on every smbd startup
+17) Fix --set-auth-user command to delete entries from the secrets file
+ when an empty username/password is passed on the command line
+18) Added --get-auth-user to wbinfo for displaying account information
+ used to enumerate users and groups
+19) Numerous updates for 'net rpc vampire' to migrate from an NT 4.0 Domain
+20) Merge of scalable printing code from APP_HEAD
+21) Numerous changes the passdb layer
+22) More work on printer publishing in Active Directory
+23) Enable "make modules" to build VFS libraries
+24) Enable print notify messages on printer attributes from smbcontrol
+25) Enable auto lookup of domain controllers when adding '*' to
+ "password server" parameter. Allows to have preferred list
+ of DC's, but not authoritative (e.g. password server = DC1 DC2 *)
+
+
+Changes in alpha20:
+-------------------
+
+1) Rework the 'guest account gets RID 501' code again...
+2) Change to use NT-based session key negotiated for Win2k SPNEGO
+3) Support printer data registry keys other than the default
+ PrinterDriverData
+4) Moved internal printerdata to REGISTRY_VALUE object
+5) Corrected bug in dependentfiles list of DRIVER_INFO_3
+6) fixed logic bug in blocking locks code
+7) Updated registry api code to work with new printer data key
+ support
+8) Added vfstest tool
+9) round lock timeouts in lockingX upwards to multiples of 1 second
+10) Fixed bugs in Printer Change Notify code
+11) added a 'net ads lookup' command that does a CLDAP NetLogon
+ query to a win2000 server
+12) Added script to find undocumented smb.conf parameters
+13) Added missing parameters to smb.conf(5)
+14) receive & parse main CLDAP reply from win2k server
+15) removed "admin log" & "alternate permissions" parameters from smb.conf
+16) added a generic print_guid utility, and get the byte order handing
+17) fixed memory corruption in cli_full_connection()
+18) remove unused 'max packet' and 'packet size' options
+19) add support for the "value,OID" format described in MSDN for Printer
+ Data values
+20) moves NT_TOKEN generation into our authentication code
+21) Update documentation build system
+22) Several fixes for IRIX compiler
+23) Correctly handle "max data count" value in smb transacts
+24) Fix for permissions error when adding/modifying using a Print
+ server handle
+25) Fix pam_smbpass to always check the return value of pdb_getsampwnam()
+26) Use the 'init' flag to determine if the UID is set, rather than testing
+ the uid for -1
+27) Cope with non-unix accounts ) we just won't get the groups for those users
+28) Add 'net rpc getsid' to fetch the PDC's SID into the local secrets.tdb.
+ Print domain SID on 'net rpc info'
+29) don't use lp_passwd_file() to retrieve NIS domain name, but use location
+ instead
+30) Various POSIX compatibility fixes
+31) Show only non-default values in testparm
+32) Fix longstanding bug in Win2k clients by clearing the shortname
+ buffer before returning ascii short name.
+33) Add example backtrace script
+34) Added NETLOGON NetServerAuthenticate3 include and parser file
+35) fix for difference in strsep and strtok semantics in nmbd
+36) Ensure we don't change to a user that we can't get an NT_TOKEN for
+37) Put back in BDC support in set_server_role()
+38) added a 'net rpc samdump' command for dumping the whole sam via
+ samsync operations (as a BDC)
+39) don't use spnego in the client unless enabled in smb.conf
+40) Added some new delta types discovered by Ronnie from ethereal
+41) Cope with negative cache dns entries better
+42) do not expose special files, only files, directories and links
+43) attempts to simplify Samba's external lib dependencies
+44) support non-root-mode systems without getgrouplist()
+45) Some fixes for SMB signing
+46) Pass the object name down to the enum_printers client rpc
+47) add the netatalk VFS module
+48) Ensure we have at least smb_size bytes before processing a packet
+49) Allow us to "lock" printer tdb entries in memory to stop them being
+ re-used as cache
+50) fix 2 byte alignment/offset bug that prevented Win2k/XP clients
+ from receiving all the printer data in EnumPrinterDataEx()
+51) Add option to compile new sam system can be enabled with the
+ configure option --with-sam
+52) Added SGML/DocBook version of developer oriented docs to build process
+53) Return correct FILE_SUPERSEDED response
+54) Added example sam module (skeleton)
+55) Add plugin support for the sam system (based on passdb code)
+56) show builtin groups in samdump
+57) Adding samtest utility used to test sam backends
+58) fix connecting to a BDC when the PDC is down but in WINS and no bcast
+ can be used to find a BDC
+58) convert the LDAP/SASL code to use GSS-SPNEGO if possible
+59) added cli_net_auth_3 client code
+60) merge of phant0m key fix from APP_HEAD
+61) allow rpcclient's samlogon command to use cli_net_3()
+62) Added attribute specific OPEN tests
+63) Fix bug with stat mode open being done on read-only open with
+ truncate
+64) Add lots of const casts to function parameters
+65) Implemented some more client side spoolss functions
+66) usrmgr expects UNICODE as ProductType
+67) Change JOB_INFO_CTR to return a pointer to an array rather than array of
+ pointers in client code
+68) Various NTLMSSP fixes
+69) fixed crash bug in cli_connection code
+70) DeletePrinterDriver[Ex]() fixes from APP_HEAD
+71) remove some inet_aton() calls for portability
+72) Set default ACB attributes on 'unixsam' accounts
+73) Add bcast_msg_flags to connection struct
+74) aggregate change notify events in the smbd sender and when transmitting
+75) Added better error code on out of space in printer spool directory
+76) Removed total jobs check ) not applicable any more
+77) fixed bug in share enumeration RPC code
+78) extend the ADS_STATUS system to include NTSTATUS
+79) commit trusted domain patch n+3
+80) remove block VFS module
+81) restrict readline headers to readline.c
+82) merge of various recycle bin VFS patches
+83) Winbind client-side cleanups
+84) change parametric option name to vfs_recycle_bin it is more
+ sane and do not pollute standard options namespace too much
+85) added --enable-python configure option for building the samba-python
+ unit tests
+86) correct trans2 bugs in client for enumerating files/directories
+87) Re-add OS/2 EA error codes
+88) Added patch for required attributes in directory listings to reply code
+89) Fix browse synchronization bug by noticing that W2K DMB's return empty
+ NetServerEnum2 on port 445, but not on port 139
+90) Fix semantics of AbortPrinter() spoolss call in server code
+91) Ensure we've failed a lock with a lock denied message before automatically
+ pushing it onto the blocking queue
+92) Added experimental sendfile code
+93) Initialize user_rid value in WINBIND_USERINFO structure returned by
+ the rpc version of query_user()
+94) added gencache implementation
+95) Merge the cli_shutdown change from 2_2
+96) Fixes for DeletePrinterDriverEx()
+97) Fixed alignment error in spoolss code
+98) Changed Major/Minor version info reported to Server Manager to 4.9
+99) Applied new display mode FLAGS for SWAT
+100) Update to add DEVELOPER option to more parameters
+101) Added --with-ads option, defaults to yes
+102) Added --with-ldap option to configure
+103) Add clock skew handling to our kerberos code
+104) correct race condition in password change code for out machine account
+ when a member of a domain
+105) First implementation for 'net rpc vampire'
+106) store current handle's Device Mode with print job
+107) Move functionality to check whether entries for lp_workgroup() and
+ "BUILTIN" exist and add them if necessary from check_correct_backend_entries
+ into sam_context_check_default_backends
+108) allow --with-krb5 to override the location of the kerberos libs on
+ redhat
+109) unlink spool file after submitting print job when using CUPS api
+110) Add framework for samtest commands
+111) Add the ability to view/set the current local domain SIDs to net command
+112) When creating a group you have to take care of the fact that the
+ underlying unix might not like the group name
+113) Don't uppercase the username and domain in a session setup
+114) Merge of "profile acls" code from SAMBA_2_2
+115) Check for existing of security descriptor in PRINTER_INFO_2 structure
+ in rpc client code
+116) Move to common user token debugging, and ensure we always print both the
+ NT_TOKEN and the unix credentials
+117) If adding a user to ldap, make sure we have the 'account' structural class,
+ or else we can't add to OpenLDAP 2.1
+118) Kill of Get_Pwnam_Modify and smb_getpwnam()
+119) add a 'ldap passwd sync' option to smb.conf
+120) Whenever we deal with adding machine/trusted domain accounts, always reset
+ the flag to what we expect
+121) Fix the circular dependency that was preventing 'domain master = auto' (the
+ default) from working
+122) move all the passdb internal interface to NTSTATUS
+123) to expand % values (ie we go \\%L\%U -> \\server\user, we don't want to
+ store \\server\user back) and to correctly notice 'not set' compared to 'null
+ string' etc.
+124) get some more of our access control bits right on the SAMR pipe
+125) Add -r parameter to smbgroupedit. With -r you can manually choose
+ a rid
-Major changes in Samba 2.0
---------------------------
-There are many major changes in Samba for version 2.0. Here are
-some of them:
-
-=====================================================================
-
-1). Speed
----------
-
-Samba has been benchmarked on high-end UNIX hardware as out-performing
-all other SMB/CIFS servers using the Ziff-Davis NetBench benchmark.
-Many changes to the code to optimise high-end performance have been made.
-
-2). Correctness
----------------
-
-Samba now supports the Windows NT specific SMB requests. This
-means that on platforms that are capable Samba now presents a
-64 bit view of the filesystem to Windows NT clients and is
-capable of handling very large files.
-
-3). Portability
----------------
-
-Samba is now self-configuring using GNU autoconf, removing
-the need for people installing Samba to have to hand configure
-Makefiles, as was needed in previous versions.
-
-You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then "make". See
-docs/textdocs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt for details.
-
-4) Web based GUI configuration
-------------------------------
-
-Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system. See
-the swat man page for details on how to set it up.
-
-5) Cross protocol data integrety
---------------------------------
-
-An open function interface has been defined to allow
-"opportunistic locks" (oplocks for short) granted by Samba
-to be seen by other UNIX processes. This allows complete
-cross protocol (NFS and SMB) data integrety using Samba
-with platforms that support this feature.
-
-6) Domain client capability
----------------------------
-
-Samba is now capable of using a Windows NT PDC for user
-authentication in exactly the same was as a Windows NT
-server does, ie. it can be a member of a Domain. See
-docs/textdocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.txt for details.
-
-7) Documentation Updates
-------------------------
-
-All the reference parts of the Samba documentation (the
-manual pages) have been updated and converted to a document
-format that allows automatic generation of HTML, SGML, and
-text formats. These documents now ship as standard in HTML
-and manpage format.
-
-=====================================================================
-
-NOTE - Some important option defaults changed
----------------------------------------------
-
-Several parameters have changed their default values. The most
-important of these is that the default security mode is now user
-level security rather than share level security.
-
-This (incompatible) change was made to ease new Samba installs
-as user level security is easier to use for Windows 95/98 and
-Windows NT clients.
-
-********IMPORTANT NOTE****************
-
-If you have no "security=" line in the [global] section of
-your current smb.conf and you update to Samba 2.0 you will
-need to add the line :
-
-security=share
-
-to get exactly the same behaviour with Samba 2.0 as you
-did with previous versions of Samba.
-
-********END IMPORTANT NOTE*************
-
-In addition, Samba now defaults to case sensitivity options that
-match a Windows NT server precisely, that is, case insensitive
-but case preserving.
-
-=====================================================================
-
-NOTE - Primary Domain Controller Functionality
-----------------------------------------------
-
-This version of Samba contains code that correctly implements
-the undocumented Primary Domain Controller authentication
-protocols. However, there is much more to being a Primary
-Domain Controller than serving Windows NT logon requests.
-
-A useful version of a Primary Domain Controller contains
-many remote proceedure calls to do things like enumerate users,
-groups, and security information, only some of which Samba currently
-implements. For this reason we have chosen not to advertise
-and actively support Primary Domain Controller functionality
-with this release.
-
-This work is being done in the CVS (developer) versions of Samba,
-development of which continues at a fast pace. If you are
-interested in participating in or helping with this development
-please join the Samba-NTDOM mailing list. Details on joining
-are available at :
-
-http://samba.anu.edu.au/listproc/
-
-Details on obtaining CVS (developer) versions of Samba
-are available at:
-
-http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html
-
-=====================================================================
-
-If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email
-a report to :
-
- samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-
-As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
-
-Regards,
-
- The Samba Team.
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