- WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha22
- 4th March 2003
+ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha24
+ 14th May 2003
==============================
This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
-Use at your own risk.
+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 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
+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.
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
+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.
+ 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
- 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.
+ 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
- new dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance
-- support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain
+- support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain
- support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
domain controllers
the problem then you will probably be ignored.
-
-Changes in alpha22:
+Changes in alpha24:
-------------------
- 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:
-
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-
-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
-
-
-
+ LDAP Schema Changes
+ -------------------
+ A new objectclass (sambaSamAccount) has been introduced to replace the old
+ sambaAccount. This change aids us in the renaming of attributes to prevent
+ clashes with attributes from other vendors. There is a conversion script
+ (examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount) to modify and LDIF file to the new schema.
+
+ Example:
+
+ $ ldapsearch .... -b "ou=people,dc=..." > old.ldif
+ $ convertSambaAccount <DOM SID> old.ldif new.ldif
+
+ The <DOM SID> can be obtained by running 'net getlocalsid <DOMAINNAME>'
+ on the Samba PDC as root.
+
+ The sambaDomain and sambaGroupMapping objects have also been modified
+ to use the new attribute naming conventions as well. There are no
+ conversion scripts for this data since the old schema was never published
+ in a stable release.
+
+ The old sambaAccount schema may still be used by specifying the
+ "ldapsam_compat" passdb backend.
+
+ Parameters
+ ----------
+
+ Removed Parameters
+
+ * total print jobs
+
+ Known Issues
+ ------------
+
+ The following are known issues with this release and will be corrected
+ in future versions:
+
+ 1) Automatically generating accounts for users and groups from
+ trusted domains when Samba is acting as a PDC
+ 2) Maintaining idmap ID's in a LDAP directory in order to implement
+ a distributed winbind solution
+
+ ChangeLog
+ ---------
+
+ See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many
+ smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
+
+1) Fix policy handle leak and crash bug in rpc printing code
+2) Changed the order of checking whether a SID is a UID or a GID
+ in posix acls
+3) Merge of winbind nss cleanup from HEAD branch
+4) Inclusion of idmap backend for mapping SIDs to uids/gids
+5) Fix for very subtle POSIX lock interaction race condition
+6) Re-fix close of delete semantics
+7) Inclusion of schannel functionality (merged from SAMBA_TNG)
+8) Remove unixsam passdb
+9) Add debugging code to decode the Win2k PAC
+10) Very large amounts of documentation fixes (including the move from
+ SGML->XML DocBook)
+11) Fix support for local_password_change() in pam_smbpass
+12) Ensure we have WinXP-like semantics for checking TIDs and FIDs
+13) More print job change notify fixes
+14) Handle deep referrals in MS-DFS code
+15) Add echo named pipe for testing purposes
+16) Workaround streams leak on SCO openserver 5.0.x
+17) Lots of popt changes to command line tools
+18) Use the new modules system for passdb (merge from HEAD)
+19) Inclusion of editreg.c for editing Windows NT+registry files off line
+20) Fix byte ordering when using CIDR notation in hosts allow/deny (again)
+21) Replace smbgroupedit tool with 'net groupmap'
+22) Merge SMB Signing, NTLMv2 and NTLMSSP fixes from HEAD branch
+23) Merge of trusted domain code from HEAD branch
+24) Fix up crashes in lanman printing code (e.g. disable spoolss = yes)
+25) Store the IP address in the utmp record when possible
+26) Fix bug in FindFirst code and OS/2 clients
+27) Fix local master browsing bug when synchronizing browse lists
+28) Fix browse synchronization when primary interface is no listed
+ in the interfaces list and "bind interfaces only" is enabled.
+29) removed ldapsam_nua and tdbsam_nua passdb backends (replaced by idmap)
+30) Include support for storing next rid value in LDAP using a
+ sambaDomain object
+31) Removed "printing = SOFTQ" option
+32) Fix winbindd dual mode
+33) Revert from wins.tdb back to wins.dat (flat text file)
+34) More Trust relationship fixes
+35) More quota fixes (including server support for NT quota info levels)
+36) VFS API has been stabilized and is feature full for final release