- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha13 Dec 15th 1997
- ========================================
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha21
+ 26th November 2002
+ ===============================
-This is NOT a production release of Samba code.
-For production servers please run Samba 1.9.17p4
-or later releases in the 1.9.17 series.
+This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
+Use at your own risk.
-In this release (1.9.18alpha13) the Domain controller
-code should not be turned on. The Domain controller
-code stream is now being developed in a separate code
-development branch. To participate in this important
-work, send an email to :
+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.
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
+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.
-to get instructions on how to gain access to
-the latest Domain controller code.
+Major new features:
+-------------------
-This release contains three major changes to the
-1.9.17 series and much re-written code.
+- Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
+ as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.
-The main changes are :
+- 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.
-1). Oplock support now operational.
------------------------------------
+- 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.
-Samba now supports 'exclusive' and 'batch' oplocks.
-These are an advanced networked file system feature
-that allows clients to obtain a exclusive use of a
-file. This allows a client to cache any changes it
-makes locally, and greatly improves performance.
-
-Windows NT has this feature and prior to this
-release this was one of the reasons Windows NT
-could be faster in some situations. Samba has
-now been benchmarked as out performing Windows
-NT on equivalently priced hardware.
-
-The oplock code in Samba has been extensively
-tested and is believed to be completely stable.
-
-Please report any problems to the samba-bugs alias.
-
-2). NetBIOS name daemon re-written.
------------------------------------
-
-The old nmbd that has caused some users problems
-has now been completely re-written and now is
-much easier to maintain and add changes to.
-
-Changes include support for multi-homed hosts
-in the same way as an NT Server with multiple
-IP interfaces behaves (registers with the WINS
-server as a multi-homed name type), and also
-support for multi-homed name registration in
-the Samba WINS server. Another added feature
-is robustness in the face of WINS server failure,
-nmbd will now keep trying to contact the WINS
-server until it is successful, in the same
-way as an NT Server.
-
-Also in this release is an implementation
-of the Lanman announce protocol used by
-OS/2 clients. Thanks to Jacco de Leeuw for
-this code.
+- 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.
-3). New Internationalization support.
--------------------------------------
+- 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.
-With this release Samba no longer needs to be
-separately compiled for Japanese (Kanji) support,
-the same binary will serve both Kanji and non-Kanji
-clients.
+- Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
+ improves error handling a lot.
-A new method of dynamically loading client code pages
-has been added to allow the case insensitivity to
-be done dependent on the code page of the client.
+- better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
+ clients has improved greatly.
-Note that Samba still will only handle one client
-code page at a time. This will be fixed when
-Samba is fully UNICODE enabled.
+Plus lots of other changes!
-Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage
-for details on adding additional client code page
-support.
+Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
+---------------------------------------
-Changed code.
--------------
+Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
+joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
-Samba no longer needs the libdes library to support
-encrypted passwords. Samba now contains a restricted
-version of DES that can only be used for authentication
-purposes (to comply with the USA export encryption
-regulations and to allow USA Mirror sites to carry
-Samba source code). The 'encrypt passwords' parameter
-may now be used without recompiling.
+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.
-Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
-to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
-An implementation of the Windows 95 automatic printer
-driver installation has been added to smbd. To use this
-new feature please read the document:
+Removed Parameters
+------------------
-docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt
+ * postscript
+ * printer driver
+ * printer driver location
+ * printer driver file
-Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau for this new code.
-
-Printer support on System V systems (notably Solaris)
-has been improved with the addition of code generously
-donated by Norm Jacobs of Sun Microsystems. Sun have
-also made a Solaris SPARC workstation available to the
-Samba Team to aid in their porting efforts.
-
-Samba now contains an implementation of share modes
-using System V shared memory as well as the mmap()
-based code. This was done to allow the 'FAST_SHARE_MODES'
-to be used on more systems (especially HPUX 9.x) that
-have System V shared memory, but not the mmap() call.
-
-The System V shared memory code is used by default on
-many systems as it has benchmarked as faster on many
-systems.
-
-The Automount code has been slightly re-shuffled, such
-that the home directory (and profile location) can be
-specified by \\%N\homes and \\%N\homes\profiles
-respectively, which are the defaults for these values.
-If -DAUTOMOUNT is enabled, then %N is the server
-component of the user's NIS auto.home entry. Obviously,
-you will need to be running Samba on the user's home
-server as well as the one they just logged in on.
-
-The RPC Domain code has been moved into a separate directory
-rpc_pipe/, and a LGPL License issued specifically for code
-in this directory. This is so that people can use this
-code in other projects.
-
-Missing feature.
-----------------
-
-One feature that we wanted to get into this release
-that was not possible due to the re-write of the nmbd
-code was the scalability features in the Samba WINS server.
-This feature is now tentatively scheduled for the next
-release (1.9.19). Apologies to anyone who was hoping
-for this feature to be included. The nmbd re-write
-will make it much easier to add such things in future.
-
-New parameters in smb.conf.
----------------------------
-
-New Global parameters.
-----------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
-
- "bind interfaces only"
-
- "lm announce"
- "lm interval"
-
- "logon drive"
- "logon home"
-
- "min wins ttl"
- "max wins ttl"
-
- "username level"
-
-New Share level parameters.
----------------------------
-
-Documented in the smb.conf man pages :
-
- "delete veto files"
- "oplocks"
-
-Nascent web interface for configuration.
-----------------------------------------
-
-source/wsmbconf.c is a cgi-bin program for editing smb.conf. It can
-also be run standalone. This is in a very early stage of development.
-
-Reporting bugs.
+Added Parameters
---------------
-If you have problems, or think you have found a
-bug please email a report to :
-
- samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-
-Please state the version number of Samba that
-you are running, and *full details* of the steps
-we need to reproduce the problem.
+ * ldap trust ids
+ * acl compatibility
+ * mangle prefix
+
+
+Modified Parameters
+-------------------
+
+ * restrict anonymous
+ * password server
+
+
+Changes in alpha21:
+
+ See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many
+ smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
+
+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 loggin 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 older alpha releases follow:
+
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+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
+
+Changes in alpha19
+1) Virtual registry framework with printing hooks (jerry)
+2) Heavy registry updates (jerry)
+3) Use 850 as the default DOS character set in smb.conf (tpot)
+4) printer fixes ) removed encoding of queueid in job number (jra)
+5) A lot of small fixes (jra)
+6) Don't crash on setfileinfo on printer fsp(jra)
+7) fixed line buffer mode in XFILE(jra)
+8) update samba.schema from 2.2 (jerry,idra)
+9) Fix problem with oplock breaks and win2k )
+ noticed by Lev Iserovich <lev@ciprico.com> (jra)
+10) Update smbgroupedit to document -d ) thanks to metze (abartlet)
+11) Support weird behaviour used by win9x pass-through auth (abartlet,tpot)
+12) Support for duplicating stderr in log files (abartlet)
+13) Move startup time initialisation to server.c (abartlet)
+14) *A lot* of fixes and cleanups (abartlet)
+15) Fix up compiler warnings (abartlet)
+16) Few small fixes (tpot)
+17) Renamed new_cli_netlogon_* -> cli_netlogon_* (tpot)
+18) Fixed segfault in net time when host is unavailable (tridge)
+19) Ensure to be root when opening printer backend tdb (jra)
+20) Merges from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot,jerry)
+21) configure updates (tridge)
+22) getgrouplist() updates (tridge)
+23) Support for pdbedit to query account policy values (abartlet)
+24) Allow one to create trusting domain account using smbpasswd (mimir,abartlet)
+25) 'Net rpc trustdom list' (mimir, abartlet)
+26) Fix fallback to anonymous connection (mimir, abartlet)
+27) Fix for pdb_ldap and OpenLDAP 2.1
+28) Added support in swat to determine whether winbind is running (idra)
+29) Add 'hide unwritable' option (idra)
+30) Correct pickup of [homes] share after subsequent session setups (abartlet)
+31) Update rebind code in pdb_ldap (abartlet)
+32) Add some info levels to RPC srvsvc code )
+ thanks to Nigel Williams" <nigel@veritas.com> (abartlet)
+33) Small doc fixes (tridge)
+34) good security patch from Timothy.Sell@unisys.com (tridge)
+35) fix minor nits in nmbd from adtam@cup.hp.com (tridge)
+36) make sure async dns nmbd child dies (tridge)
+37) interim fix for nmbd not registering DOMAIN#1b (tridge)
+38) fix for smbtar filename matching (tridge)
+39) Better quote handling in smb.conf (abartlet)
+40) Support browsers setting multiple languages in swat (idra)
+41) Changed str_list_make to be able to use a different separator string (idra)
+42) Samsync support to insert account info into the pdb (tpot)
+43) Don't hide unwritable dirs when 'hide unwritable' is enabled )
+ suggested by Alexander Oswald <oswald@is.haw-hamburg.de> (idra)
+44) Fix for handling sparse files in smbd (tridge)
+45) Merges from 2_2 (jerry)
+46) Minor printer fixes (jerry)
+47) Add some checks to SID lookup code (abartlet)
+48) Cascaded VFS (Alexander Bokovoy, idra)
+49) Some netbios-less connections support in ADS mode (tridge)
+50) ADS tweaks (tridge)
+51) Fix plaintext passwords with win2k (tridge)
+52) 'net ads info' reports IP of LDAP server (tridge)
+53) Add some more RPC functions (jmcd)
+54) Add 'smb ports = ' option (tridge)
+55) Various small fixes (tridge)
+56) Passdb security checks (abartlet)
+57) Large winbind updates (abartlet)
+58) Moved rpc client routines from libsmb to rpc_client (tpot)
+59) Few nmbd fixes (jmcd)
+60) Fix swat to handle new debug level code (idra)
+61) Fix name length bug in namequeries (tridge)
+62) Don't have client binaries depend on libs they don't use )
+ patch from Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> (abartlet)
+63) Printing change notification (merged from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry)
+64) fix delete printer driver (from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry)
+65) Added pdb_xml and pdb_mysql (jelmer)
+66) Update pdb_test (jelmer)
+67) Fix security issues with %m (abartlet)
+68) Support for service joins from win2k AND use SPNEGO (jmcd)
+69) pdbedit -i and -e fix, add -b (idra)
+70) textdocs converted to sgml (jelmer, jerry)
+71) Merge netbios namecache code from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot)
+72) Fix segs in new NTLMSSP code (abartlet)
+73) Always make guest rid 501 (abartlet)
-As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
-Regards,
- The Samba Team.
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