X-Git-Url: http://git.samba.org/samba.git/?p=kai%2Fsamba.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=WHATSNEW.txt;h=21e5c4d03cb4e3bb09d76619ebb4deedb192fa7c;hp=44d0acf9a9f5c39ce664fa239c88f7ba3a224944;hb=b3e68c1283aac417956ba8c21b7dd80fc55ab580;hpb=8f721f8c1d758c6f9483145a1b39e9264c8011f4 diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 44d0acf9a9f..21e5c4d03cb 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,212 +1,564 @@ - WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha14 Dec 23rd 1997 - ======================================== + WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX + ============================= + +Changes in alpha20 + - Rework the 'guest account gets RID 501' code again... + - Change to use NT-based session key negotiated for Win2k SPNEGO + - Support printer data registry keys other than the default + PrinterDriverData + - Moved internal printerdata to REGISTRY_VALUE object + - Corrected bug in dependentfiles list of DRIVER_INFO_3 + - fixed logic bug in blocking locks code + - Updated registry api code to work with new printer data key + support + - Added vfstest tool + - round lock timeouts in lockingX upwards to multiples of 1 second + - Fixed bugs in Printer Change Notify code + - added a 'net ads lookup' command that does a CLDAP NetLogon + query to a win2000 server + - Added script to find undocumented smb.conf parameters + - Added missing parameters to smb.conf(5) + - receive & parse main CLDAP reply from win2k server + - removed "admin log" & "alternate permissions" parameters from smb.conf + - added a generic print_guid utility, and get the byte order handing + - fixed memory corruption in cli_full_connection() + - remove unused 'max packet' and 'packet size' options + - add support for the "value,OID" format described in MSDN for Printer + Data values + - moves NT_TOKEN generation into our authentication code + - Update documentation build system + - Several fixes for IRIX compiler + - Correctly handle "max data count" value in smb transacts + - Fix for permissions error when adding/modifying using a Print + server handle + - Fix pam_smbpass to always check the return value of pdb_getsampwnam() + - Use the 'init' flag to determine if the UID is set, rather than testing + the uid for -1 + - Cope with non-unix accounts - we just won't get the groups for those users + - Add 'net rpc getsid' to fetch the PDC's SID into the local secrets.tdb. + Print domain SID on 'net rpc info' + - don't use lp_passwd_file() to retrieve NIS domain name, but use location + instead + - Various POSIX compatibility fixes + - Show only non-default values in testparm + - Fix longstanding bug in Win2k clients by clearing the shortname + buffer before returning ascii short name. + - Add example backtrace script + - Added NETLOGON NetServerAuthenticate3 include and parser file + - fix for difference in strsep and strtok semantics in nmbd + - Ensure we don't change to a user that we can't get an NT_TOKEN for + - Put back in BDC support in set_server_role() + - added a 'net rpc samdump' command for dumping the whole sam via + samsync operations (as a BDC) + - don't use spnego in the client unless enabled in smb.conf + - Added some new delta types discovered by Ronnie from ethereal + - Cope with negative cache dns entries better + - do not expose special files, only files, directories and links + - attempts to simplify Samba's external lib dependencies + - support non-root-mode systems without getgrouplist() + - Some fixes for SMB signing + - Pass the object name down to the enum_printers client rpc + - add the netatalk VFS module + - Ensure we have at least smb_size bytes before processing a packet + - Allow us to "lock" printer tdb entries in memory to stop them being + re-used as cache + - fix 2 byte alignment/offset bug that prevented Win2k/XP clients + from receiving all the printer data in EnumPrinterDataEx() + - Add option to compile new sam system can be enabled with the + configure option --with-sam + - Added SGML/DocBook version of developer oriented docs to build process + - Return correct FILE_SUPERSEDED response + - Added example sam module (skeleton) + - Add plugin support for the sam system (based on passdb code) + - show builtin groups in samdump + - Adding samtest utility used to test sam backends + - fix connecting to a BDC when the PDC is down but in WINS and no bcast + can be used to find a BDC + - convert the LDAP/SASL code to use GSS-SPNEGO if possible + - added cli_net_auth_3 client code + - merge of phant0m key fix from APP_HEAD + - allow rpcclient's samlogon command to use cli_net_3() + - Added attribute specific OPEN tests + - Fix bug with stat mode open being done on read-only open with + truncate + - Add lots of const casts to function parameters + - Implemented some more client side spoolss functions + - usrmgr expects unicode as ProductType + - Change JOB_INFO_CTR to return a pointer to an array rather than array of + pointers in client code + - Various NTLMSSP fixes + - fixed crash bug in cli_connection code + - DeletePrinterDriver[Ex]() fixes from APP_HEAD + - remove some inet_aton() calls for portability + - Set default ACB attributes on 'unixsam' accounts + - Add bcast_msg_flags to connection struct + - aggregate change notify events in the smbd sender and when transmitting + - Added better error code on out of space in printer spool directory + - Removed total jobs check - not applicable any more + - fixed bug in share enumeration RPC code + - extend the ADS_STATUS system to include NTSTATUS + - commit trusted domain patch n+3 + - remove block VFS module + - restrict readline headers to readline.c + - merge of various recycle bin VFS patches + - Winbind client-side cleanups + - change parametric option name to vfs_recycle_bin it is more + sane and do not pollute standard options namespace too much + - added --enable-python configure option for building the samba-python + unit tests + - correct trans2 bugs in client for enumerating files/directories + - Re-add OS/2 EA error codes + - Added patch for required attributes in directory listings to reply code + - Fix browse synchronization bug by noticing that W2K DMB's return empty + NetServerEnum2 on port 445, but not on port 139 + - Fix semantics of AbortPrinter() spoolss call in server code + - Ensure we've failed a lock with a lock denied message before automatically + pushing it onto the blocking queue + - Added experimental sendfile code + - Initialize user_rid value in WINBIND_USERINFO structure returned by + the rpc version of query_user() + - added gencache implementation + - Merge the cli_shutdown change from 2_2 + - Fixes for DeletePrinterDriverEx() + - Fixed alignment error in spoolss code + - Changed Major/Minor version info reported to Server Manager to 4.9 + - Applied new display mode FLAGS for SWAT + - Update to add DEVELOPER option to more parameters + - Added --with-ads option, defaults to yes + - Added --with-ldap option to configure + - Add clock skew handling to our kerberos code + - correct race condition in password change code for out machine account + when a member of a domain + - First implementation for 'net rpc vampire' + - store current handle's Device Mode with print job + - 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 + - allow --with-krb5 to override the location of the kerberos libs on + redhat + - unlink spool file after submitting print job when using CUPS api + - Add framework for samtest commands + - Add the ability to view/set the current local domain SIDs to net command + - When creating a group you have to take care of the fact that the + underlying unix might not like the group name + - Don't uppercase the username and domain in a session setup + - Merge of "profile acls" code from SAMBA_2_2 + - Check for existing of security descriptor in PRINTER_INFO_2 structure + in rpc client code + - Move to common user token debugging, and ensure we always print both the + NT_TOKEN and the unix credentials + - If adding a user to ldap, make sure we have the 'account' structural class, + or else we can't add to OpenLDAP 2.1 + - Kill of Get_Pwnam_Modify and smb_getpwnam() + - add a 'ldap passwd sync' option to smb.conf + - Whenever we deal with adding machine/trusted domain accounts, always reset + the flag to what we expect + - Fix the circular dependency that was preventing 'domain master = auto' (the + default) from working + - move all the passdb internal interface to NTSTATUS + - 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. + - get some more of our access control bits right on the SAMR pipe + - Add -r parameter to smbgroupedit. With -r you can manually choose + a rid + +Changes in alpha19 + - Virtual registry framework with printing hooks (jerry) + - Heavy registry updates (jerry) + - Use 850 as the default DOS character set in smb.conf (tpot) + - printer fixes - removed encoding of queueid in job number (jra) + - A lot of small fixes (jra) + - Don't crash on setfileinfo on printer fsp(jra) + - fixed line buffer mode in XFILE(jra) + - update samba.schema from 2.2 (jerry,idra) + - Fix problem with oplock breaks and win2k - + noticed by Lev Iserovich (jra) + - Update smbgroupedit to document -d - thanks to metze (abartlet) + - Support weird behaviour used by win9x pass-through auth (abartlet,tpot) + - Support for duplicating stderr in log files (abartlet) + - Move startup time initialisation to server.c (abartlet) + - *A lot* of fixes and cleanups (abartlet) + - Fix up compiler warnings (abartlet) + - Few small fixes (tpot) + - Renamed new_cli_netlogon_* -> cli_netlogon_* (tpot) + - Fixed segfault in net time when host is unavailable (tridge) + - Ensure to be root when opening printer backend tdb (jra) + - Merges from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot,jerry) + - configure updates (tridge) + - getgrouplist() updates (tridge) + - Support for pdbedit to query account policy values (abartlet) + - Allow one to create trusting domain account using smbpasswd (mimir,abartlet) + - 'Net rpc trustdom list' (mimir, abartlet) + - Fix fallback to anonymous connection (mimir, abartlet) + - Fix for pdb_ldap and OpenLDAP 2.1 + - Added support in swat to determine whether winbind is running (idra) + - Add 'hide unwritable' option (idra) + - Correct pickup of [homes] share after subsequent session setups (abartlet) + - Update rebind code in pdb_ldap (abartlet) + - Add some info levels to RPC srvsvc code - + thanks to Nigel Williams" (abartlet) + - Small doc fixes (tridge) + - good security patch from Timothy.Sell@unisys.com (tridge) + - fix minor nits in nmbd from adtam@cup.hp.com (tridge) + - make sure async dns nmbd child dies (tridge) + - interim fix for nmbd not registering DOMAIN#1b (tridge) + - fix for smbtar filename matching (tridge) + - Better quote handling in smb.conf (abartlet) + - Support browsers setting multiple languages in swat (idra) + - Changed str_list_make to be able to use a different separator string (idra) + - Samsync support to insert account info into the pdb (tpot) + - Don't hide unwritable dirs when 'hide unwritable' is enabled - + suggested by Alexander Oswald (idra) + - Fix for handling sparse files in smbd (tridge) + - Merges from 2_2 (jerry) + - Minor printer fixes (jerry) + - Add some checks to SID lookup code (abartlet) + - Cascaded VFS (Alexander Bokovoy, idra) + - Some netbios-less connections support in ADS mode (tridge) + - ADS tweaks (tridge) + - Fix plaintext passwords with win2k (tridge) + - 'net ads info' reports IP of LDAP server (tridge) + - Add some more RPC functions (jmcd) + - Add 'smb ports = ' option (tridge) + - Various small fixes (tridge) + - Passdb security checks (abartlet) + - Large winbind updates (abartlet) + - Moved rpc client routines from libsmb to rpc_client (tpot) + - Few nmbd fixes (jmcd) + - Fix swat to handle new debug level code (idra) + - Fix name length bug in namequeries (tridge) + - Don't have client binaries depend on libs they don't use - + patch from Steve Langasek (abartlet) + - Printing change notification (merged from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry) + - fix delete printer driver (from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry) + - Added pdb_xml and pdb_mysql (jelmer) + - Update pdb_test (jelmer) + - Fix security issues with %m (abartlet) + - Support for service joins from win2k AND use SPNEGO (jmcd) + - pdbedit -i and -e fix, add -b (idra) + - textdocs converted to sgml (jelmer, jerry) + - Merge netbios namecache code from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot) + - Fix segs in new NTLMSSP code (abartlet) + - Always make guest rid 501 (abartlet) + +Changes in alpha18 + - huge number of changes! really too many to list ... (and its 1am + here, and I'm too tired) + See the cvs tree at http://build.samba.org/ + + +Changes in alpha17 +- OpenLinux packaging updates (jht) +- Locking updates - fix zero timeout (tridge, jra) +- Default ACL support (jra, based on code from Olaf Frczyk ) +- printing updates - spoolss stuff (tpot) +- 'make install' directory creation fixes (abartlet) +- Lots of fixes for SID handling, local v domain sids etc +- better mangle debugging (abartlet) +- fixes to allow 'net' to return more than 1000 users from ADS (jmcd) + - winbind support to come very shortly +- lock some more tdbs to allow concurrent access for backups +- 'net' help cleanups (jmcd) +- 'net join' automatic transport detection + +Changes in alpha16 +- LDAP schema updates (jerry) +- initial ADS LDAP printer advertising (jmcd) +- spoolss and printing updates (tpot, jerry) + (the is the major update in this alpha, and work continues) +- Winbindd connection cache improvements (abartlet) +- spnego segfault fixes (abartlet) +- net ads segfault fixes ( Alexander Bokovoy ) +- header cleanups (tpot) +- Serialise domain auth requests - win2k bug (tridge) +- fix winbind talloced memory leak (dleducq@arkoon.net, tridge) +- call unmangle in don_unmangle (abartlet) +- UTF8 Charset functions - for ADS LDAP calls (Hasch@t-online.de) +- Fix security tab for mapped drives on unicode clients (tridge) +- Better configure tests for snprintf and immidiate structures (abartlet) +- allow 'passdb backend = plugin : /path/to/plugin.so : plguin args' + (loads a passdb module) (Jelmer Vernooij ) +- change the way we store our domain join info - you will need to +rejoin the domain (tridge) +- xcopy /o fixes (tridge) +- fix the 'convert_string' level 0 debugs. +- Patch for Domain users not showing up from "Ivan Zhakov" +- tdb backup support +- The beginning of trusted and trusting domain support - net commands + (Rafal Szczesniak ) +- nmbd signal processing fixes (jra) +- lseek-on-pipe support (jra) +- Allow Samba to trust NT4 Domains (abartlet) +- LDAPsam updates (abartlet): + - Now runtime selectable (when configured) + - ldap user suffix and ldap group suffix support. + - non unix account support + - select with 'passdb backend = ldapsam' or 'passdb backend = + ldapsam_nua' +- start to allow NT4 domains to trust Samba, netlogon fixes (abartlet) +- make default unix charset UTF8 (tridge) +- Fix SIGSEGV on error message when trying to add a user to smbpasswd +file without a unix account (jmcd) +- better detection of dead ADS connections, so we have some chance of +reconnecting (tridge) +- removed bogus prepend_domain() call which was screwing up getpwuid() +with the new default domain code +- Domain/workstation SID fixes. +- patch from Alexey Kotovich that adds + the security decsriptor code for ADS workstation accounts. + (allow self password change, self remove) + (after much review and disscussion with abartlet and tridge) + +Changes in alpha15 +- Improvements in pam_winbind/winbindd_pam.c: (abartlet) + - Much better error reporting + - Password changing is now stackable + - now returns multiple PAM errors based on the NTSTATUS + that winbind got. + - returns an error string the client can use in their own logs. +- Print form updates (tpot) +- added 'wbinfo --sequence' to show sequence numbers of + all domains (tridge) +- better winbind memory mangement (tridge) +- make signal processing work correctly in winbindd + Michael Steffens +- Inital ADS printer publishing work. (jmcd) +- Debian packaging +- large debian packaging checking from Eloy. (merge by jerry) +- Make smbgroupedit a little easier on the user (select groups + by name rather than by sid) (abartlet) +- rework parts of smbtorture (tridge) + +Changes in alpha14 +- 'Winbind Default Domain' support: + This allows winbind to supply usernames without a 'DOMAIN\' + prefix. Particularly handy for shell and e-mail servers, + as well as Unix workstations in NT domains. +- Associated cleanups in winbindd and smbd. + (Alexander Bokovoy and + abartlet) +- Winbind protocol changes for better Squid intergration + (current version is 3) (abartlet) +- pam_winbind password changing + (Samuel Ziegler , tpot) +- runtime selectable pluggable passdb interface. + (abartlet) +- 'non unix account' support (abartlet) + (This allows machines and even users not to exist + in /etc/passwd) +- Inital implementation of the WINS replication deamon + (jfm) +- Changes for better winbind PDC/BDC failover support + (tpot) +- Various Winbind/ADS mode stabilty and flexablity fixes + (tridge) +- Mangle names like .bashrc properly (trige) +- CIFS UNIX extensions (client and server) (jra) +- Universal group support outside smbd (via a cache) + (Alexander Bokovoy ) +- Write cache fixes (jra) + +Changes in alpha13 +- updates to try to get more out-of-the-box compiles + (mostly kerberos and ldap stuff) (various) +- 'net rpc shutdown' remote shutdown of servers + (abartlet, original code from idra) +- authentication subsystem rework, including move to + new RPC client code (abartlet) +- winbind changes: + - use new client code (abartlet) + - change winbind_auth_pam_crap interface for squid's + benifit. (abartlet) + - new interface versioning functionality (abartlet) + - cope better when inteface does change (tpot) + - better winbind trusted domain code (tpot) +- doc updates (jerry) +- new NTSTAUS -> DOS error map (abartlet) +- large user list (> 1500) enumeration (jra) +- dmalloc support (mbp) +- spoolss changes (tpot) +- talloc accounting (mbp) +- rename fixes (jra) +- smbmount trivial fixup (abartlet) +- start of new unix extenions to CIFS (jra) + +Changes in alpha12 +- doc updates (jerry) +- store domain sid on ADS join (tridge) +- allow a winbind username on ADS connection (tridge) + +Changes in alpha11 +- fixed fallback to "ads server" option (tridge) +- fix ACL failure on HP HFS (jra) +- net ads password and net ads chostpass commands (Remus Koos) +- fixed valid char array generation (tridge) +- fixed QFS_INFO for win98 long filenames (tridge) +- added net lookup command (tridge) +- fixed map to guest with spnego (tridge) +- fixed irix warnings (tridge) + + +Changes in alpha10 +- hide unreadable fix using acl fns (jra) +- lsa_open_policy cleanup (jfm) +- mangled directories fix (jra) +- fix error return on bad pipe (jra) +- fix homes share with no home dir (tpot) +- fixed handling of dead or empty domains in winbindd (tridge) +- added talloc torture program (mbp) +- talloc debug code (mbp) +- added trusted domains to winbindd/ADS (tridge) +- fix trusted domains in auth code (tridge) +- new gss error handling code (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net & tridge) +- support mixed ADS/NT4 domains (tridge) + +Changes in alpha9 +- nicer net error messages (tpot) +- trust account patches (mimir) +- solaris link option update (davecb) +- added lsa_query_secobj() server fn (jfm) +- spoolss changeid fix (jerry) +- domain auth error fix (jmcd) +- HPUX acl code (jra) +- set filetime on close fix (jra) +- allow select of org unit in ads join (tridge) + +Changes in alpha8 +- fixed compile of wb_client.c (tridge) +- fixed net time to use localtime (tridge) +- net help cleanups (jmcd) +- debug level fix (tpot) +- utmp string length fixes (monyo) + + +Changes in alpha7 + +- added "net ads info" to probe basic into on your ads server without + any authentication +- improved some error handling + +Changes in alpha6 + +- added "net time zone" command (tridge) +- pam_smbpass updates (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net) +- irix updates (herb) +- net rpc join handles existing machine acct (tridge) + +Changes in alpha5 + +- added "net time" command (tridge) +- allow client tools to specify a hostname of form HOST#xx (tridge) +- added wbinfo --set-auth-user (tpot) +- added lsaquerysecobj to rpcclient (tpot) + +Changes in alpha4 + +- fixed nexus/win9x user list (jfm) +- fixed large user/group lists in winbindd (tridge) +- fixed gssapi headers in redhat (jmcd) +- fixed rap error code handling (jra) +- more usermanager rpc calls (jfm) +- re-added RAP calls at top level to net command (tridge) + +Changes in alpha3 + +- fixed a silly tdb bug in alpha2 that affected internal databases + +Changes in alpha2 + +- we no longer use cyrus-sasl for LDAP SASL/gssapi. This makes our ADS + code much more robust. +- winbindd cache code rewritten to be much more efficient. It also + copes much better with server outages. +- jfm implemented full group mapping and smb.conf option 'domain admin + group' is now gone. Consult the GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt to know how + to gain back administrator rights. +- docs update started +- numerous small bugfixes + +Changes in alpha1 + + - winbindd now uses LDAP and works correctly with an ADS server in + native mode + - XFS quotas code on Linux + - group mapping code from JFM + - "net rpc join" command replaces smbpasswd -j + - fixed winbind initgroups + +-------------- + +This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable +release. Use at your own risk. + +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 are +planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very +shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To +reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many +poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and +hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing. + +Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There +is a lot 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. + +This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there +are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the +new options and features in 3.0. + +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. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very + rough guide on how to set this up. + +- Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and + interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte + and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix + charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not + yet documented. -This is NOT a production release of Samba code. -For production servers please run Samba 1.9.17p5 -or later releases in the 1.9.17 series. +- 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. Not documented + yet. -In this release (1.9.18alpha14) 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, read the instructions on how to get the source -code for the BRANCH_NTDOM Samba branch in the document +- new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been + completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps + persistantly. This needs lots of testing. -docs/CVS_ACCESS.txt +- 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. -available in this Samba release. +- Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This + improves error handling a lot. -This release contains three major changes to the -1.9.17 series and much re-written code. +- better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000 + clients has improved greatly. -The main changes are : +Plus lots of other changes! -1). Oplock support now operational. ------------------------------------ +Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop +you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic +file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure +that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more +alpha releases we will start to document the new features. -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. -3). New Internationalization support. -------------------------------------- - -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. - -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. - -Note that Samba still will only handle one client -code page at a time. This will be fixed when -Samba is fully UNICODE enabled. - -Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage -for details on adding additional client code page -support. - - -Changed code. -------------- - -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. - -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: - -docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt - -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. - -Debugging support. ------------------- - -smbd and nmbd will now modify their debug log level when -they receive a USR1 signal (increase debug level by one) -and USR2 signal (decrease debug level by one). This has -been added to aid administrators track down faults that -only occur after long periods of time, or transiently. - -Reporting bugs. ---------------- - -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. - -As always, all bugs are our responsibility. - -Regards, - - The Samba Team. +Reporting bugs & Development Discussion +--------------------------------------- + +Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by +joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.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.