-What's new in Samba 4 beta1
+What's new in Samba 4.0.0 rc1
=============================
Samba 4.0 will be the next version of the Samba suite and incorporates
WARNINGS
========
-Samba4 beta1 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 the best of all of Samba's
+Samba 4.0.0 rc1 is not a final Samba release, however we are now making
+good progress towards a Samba 4.0 release.
+
+This release contains the best of all of Samba's
technology parts, both a file server (that you can reasonably expect
to upgrade existing Samba 3.x releases to) and the AD domain
controller work previously known as 'samba4'.
-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.
-
-In particular note that the new default configuration 's3fs' may have
-different stability characteristics compared with our previous default
-file server. We are making this release so that we can find and fix
-any of these issues that arise in the real world. AD DC installations
-can provision with --use-ntvfs to obtain the previous default file
-server.
+Samba 4.0 is subjected to an awesome battery of tests on an automated
+basis, we have found Samba 4.0 to be very stable in its behaviour.
+However, as with all our pre-releases we still recommend against
+upgrading production servers from Samba 3.x release to Samba 4.0.0rc1
+at this stage.
If you are upgrading, or looking to develop, test or deploy Samba 4.0
-alpha releases, you should backup all configuration and data.
+releases candidates, you should backup all configuration and data.
+
+
+UPGRADING
+=========
+
+Users upgrading from Samba 3.x domain controllers and wanting to use
+Samba 4.0 as an AD DC should use the 'samba-tool domain
+classicupgrade' command. See the wiki for more details:
+https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/samba3upgrade/HOWTO
+
+Users upgrading from Samba 4.0 alpha and beta releases since alpha15
+should run 'samba-tool dbcheck --cross-ncs --fix' before re-starting
+Samba. Users upgrading from earlier alpha releases should contact the
+team for advice.
+
+Users upgrading an AD DC from any previous release should run
+'samba-tool ntacl sysvolreset' to re-sync ACLs on the sysvol share
+with those matching the GPOs in LDAP and the defaults from an initial
+provision. This will set an underlying POSIX ACL if required (eg not
+using the NTVFS file server).
+
+If you used the BIND9_FLATFILE or BIND9_DLZ features,
+you'll have to add '-dns' to the 'server services' option,
+as the internal dns server (SAMBA_INTERNAL) is the default now.
NEW FEATURES
============
-Samba 4.0 beta supports the server-side of the Active Directory logon
+Samba 4.0 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.
the infamous Kerberos PAC, and include it with the Kerberos tickets we
issue.
-Samba 4.0 alpha ships with two distinct file servers. We now use the
+Samba 4.0.0rc1 ships with two distinct file servers. We now use the
file server from the Samba 3.x series 'smbd' for all file serving by
-default. For pure file server work, the binaries users would expect
-from that series (nmbd, winbindd, smbpasswd) continue to be available.
+default.
Samba 4.0 also ships with the 'NTVFS' file server. This file server
is what was used in all previous alpha releases of Samba 4.0, and is
continue to support this, not only to provide continuity to
installations that have deployed it as part of an AD DC, but also as a
running example of the NT-FSA architecture we expect to move smbd to in
-the longer term.
+the longer term.
-As mentioned above, this change to the default file server may cause
-instability, as we learn about the real-world interactions between
-these two key components.
+For pure file server work, the binaries users would expect from that
+series (nmbd, winbindd, smbpasswd) continue to be available. When
+running an AD DC, you only need to run 'samba' (not
+nmbd/smbd/winbind), as the required services are co-coordinated by this
+master binary.
-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.
+As DNS is an integral part of Active Directory, we also provide two DNS
+solutions, a simple internal DNS server for 'out of the box' configurations
+and a more elaborate BIND plugin using the BIND DLZ mechanism in versions
+9.8 and 9.9. During the provision, you can select which backend to use.
+With the internal backend, your DNS server is good to go.
+If you chose the BIND_DLZ backend, a configuration file will be generated
+for bind to make it use this plugin, as well as a file explaining how to
+set up bind.
+To provide accurate timestamps to Windows clients, we integrate with
+the NTP project to provide secured NTP replies. To use you need to
+start ntpd and configure it with the 'restrict ... ms-sntp' and
+ntpsigndsocket options.
+Finally, 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.
-CHANGES SINCE alpha20
-=====================
+CHANGES SINCE beta8
+===================
-For a list of changes since alpha 19, please see the git log.
+For a list of changes since beta8, please see the git log.
$ git clone git://git.samba.org/samba.git
$ cd samba.git
-$ git log samba-4.0.0alpha20..samba-4.0.0beta1
+$ git log samba-4.0.0beta8..samba-4.0.0rc1
Some major user-visible changes include:
-For installations that do not need an AD Domain controller, we can now
-build using MIT Kerberos from the local system. This is important for
-some distributors. This is enabled with the new --with-system-mitkrb5
-configure option. A synonym is the new --without-ad-dc option.
-
-The 's3fs' effort has moved to a new stage, with this now being the
-default mode of operation for new provisions.
+- The smbd file server now offers SMB3 as the maximum protocol
+ by default. Samba can negotiate version 3 of the SMB protocol
+ and supports the required features, including all required
+ features of SMB 2.1 and SMB 2.0. Note that this does not imply
+ that Samba implements all features of SMB3 since many of them
+ are optional capabilities. Examples of features that Samba does
+ not implement yet are leases (SMB 2.1) and multi-channel (SMB 3).
+
+ Samba now offers an initial support for SMB2 durable file handles.
+ These are enabled by default and can be turned off on a per share
+ basis by setting "durable handles = no" on the share configuration.
+ Note that in order to prevent conflicts with other applications
+ accessing the same files, durable handles are only granted on
+ shares that are configured for CIFS/SMB2-only access, i.e. more
+ explicitly shares that are configured for minimal interoperability
+ with these settings:
+
+ kernel oplocks = no
+ kernel share modes = no
+ posix locking = no
+
+ The option "kernel share modes" has been introduced to be able
+ to turn the translation of SMB share modes into kernel flocks
+ off.
+
+- The 'provision' script was merged into 'samba-tool'
+ as 'samba-tool domain provision' the arguments are still
+ the same.
+
+- The 'updateprovision' script was renamed to 'samba_upgradeprovision'.
+
+- We changed the default dns implementation to the internal dns server
+ (SAMBA_INTERNAL). BIND9_FLATFILE and BIND9_DLZ are still available,
+ but you'll have to add '-dns' to the 'server services' option
+ to disable the internal dns server.
+ The default for 'allow dns updates' has changed to 'secure only'.
-The BIND 9 DLZ plugin has had some stability improvements under BIND reloads.
-
-The 'samba-tool domain samba3upgrade' tool will now generally import
-all group members, and correctly imports domain password policies.
+KNOWN ISSUES
+============
-Some major but less visible changes include:
+- 'samba-tool domain classicupgrade' will fail when setting ACLs on
+ the GPO folders with NT_STATUS_INVALID_ONWER in the default
+ configuration. This happens if, as is typical a 'domain admins'
+ group (-512) is mapped in the passdb backend being upgraded. This
+ is because the group mapping to a GID only prevents Samba from
+ allocating a uid for that group. The uid is needed so the 'domain
+ admins' group can own the GPO file objects.
-Continued early implementation work on the SMB 2.2 protocol client and server as
-the team improves and develops support these new protocols.
+ To work around this issue, remove the 'domain admins' group before
+ upgrade, as it will be re-created automatically. You will
+ of course need to fill in the group membership again. A future release
+ will make this automatic, or find some other workaround.
+- This release makes the s3fs file server the default, as this is the
+ file server combination we will use for the Samba 4.0 release.
-KNOWN ISSUES
-============
+- For similar reasons, sites with ACLs stored by the ntvfs file server
+ may wish to continue to use that file server implementation, as a
+ posix ACL will similarly not be set in this case.
-- We are making this beta release to gain real-world use of the 's3fs'
- file server combination we will use for the Samba 4.0 release.
- Users should expect some rough edges: in particular, there are
- warnings about invalid parameters from the two respective parameter
- parsing engines.
+- Replication of DNS data from one AD server to another may not work.
+ The DNS data used by the internal DNS server and bind9_dlz is stored
+ in an application partition in our directory. The replication of
+ this partition is not yet reliable.
-- There have been improvements to FreeBSD support, but more work is
- still required to finish this effort
+- Replication may fail on FreeBSD due to getaddrinfo() rejecting names
+ containing _. A workaround will be in a future release.
-- upgradeprovision should not be run when upgrading to this release
+- samba_upgradeprovision should not be run when upgrading to this release
from a recent release. No important database format changes have
- been made since alpha16.
+ been made since alpha16.
- Installation on systems without a system iconv (and developer
headers at compile time) is known to cause errors when dealing with
non-ASCII characters.
-- Domain member support in the 'samba' binary is in it's infancy, and
+- Domain member support in the 'samba' binary is in its 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 NetBIOS browsing support (network neighbourhood) in the
- 'samba' binary (use nmbd and smbd instead)
+- There is no NetBIOS browsing support (network neighbourhood)
+ available for the AD domain controller. (Support in nmbd and smbd
+ for classic domains and member/standalone servers is unchanged).
- Clock Synchronisation is critical. Many 'wrong password' errors are
actually due to Kerberos objecting to a clock skew between client
- 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.
+ here in response to feedback from our production users.
+
RUNNING Samba 4.0 as an AD DC
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