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2 Release Notes for Samba 3.0.3pre1
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6 This is a release candidate snapshot of the Samba 3.0.2 code
7 base and should be considered for testing only. A release
8 candidate (RC) means that we are close to the final, stable
9 release and in provided for Quality Assurance (QA) purposes.
10 This release is *not* intended for production servers. Use
13 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.1 release that
14 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
15 for wider testings. See the "Changes" section for details on
18 Common bugs fixed in this preview release include:
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29 Please refer to the CVS log for the SAMBA_3_0 branch for complete
30 details. The list of changes per contributor are as follows:
32 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
35 o Andrew Bartlet <abartlet@samba.org>
38 o Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org>
41 o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
44 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
47 o Herb Lewis <herb@samba.org>
50 o Jianliang Lu <j.lu@tiesse.com>
53 o Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org>
55 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
58 o Tim Potter <tpot@samba.org>
61 o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
65 Changes since 3.0.2pre1
66 -----------------------
68 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
69 * Revert change that broke Exchange clear text samlogons.
70 * Fix gcc 3.4 warning in MS-DFS code.
73 o Andrew Bartlet <abartlet@samba.org>
74 * Fix segfault when 'security = ads' but no realm is defined.
75 * BUG 722: Allow winbindd to map machine accounts to uids.
76 * More cleanups for winbindd's find_our_domain().
77 * More clearly detect whether a domain controller is an NT4
78 or mixed-mode AD DC (additional bug fixes by jerry & jmcd).
79 * Increase separation between DNS queries for hosts and queries
80 for AD domain controllers.
83 o Justin Baugh <justin.baugh@request.com>
84 * BUG 948: Implement missing functions required for FreeBSD
88 o Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org>
89 * BUG 922: Make sure enable fast path for strlower_m() and
93 o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
94 * Fix several warnings reported by the SUN Forte C compiler.
95 * Fully control DNS queries for AD DC's using 'name resolve order'.
96 * BUG 770: Send the SMBjobid for UNIX jobs back to the client.
97 * BUG 972: Fix segfault in cli_ds_getprimarydominfo().
98 * BUG 936: fix bind credentials for schannel binds in smbd.
99 * BUG 446: Fix output of smbclient for better compatibility
100 with scripts based on the 2.2 version (including Amanda).
101 * BUG 891, 949: Fedora packaging fixes.
104 o Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM>
105 * Fix segfault in session setup reply caused by a early free().
108 o Stoian Ivanov <sdr@bultra.com>
109 * Implement grepable output for smbclient -L.
112 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
113 * Add a German translation for SWAT.
114 * Fix a segfaults in winbindd.
115 * Fix the user's domain passed to register_vuid() from
116 reply_spnego_kerberos().
117 * Add NSS example code in nss_winbind to convert UNIX
118 id's <-> Windows SIDs.
121 o Herb Lewis <herb@samba.org>
122 * Fix bit rot in psec.
125 o Jianliang Lu <j.lu@tiesse.com>
126 * BUG 381: check builtin (not local) group SID when updating
130 o John Klinger <john.klinger@lmco.com>
131 * Implement initgroups() call in nss_winbind on Solaris.
134 o Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org>
135 * Fix regression in net rpc join caused by recent changes
136 to cli_lsa_query_info_policy().
137 * BUG 964: Fix crash bug in 'net rpc join' using a preexisting
141 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
142 * Fix XFS quotas: HAVE_XFS_QUOTA -> HAVE_XFS_QUOTAS
143 XFS_USER_QUOTA -> USRQUOTA
144 XFS_GROUP_QUOTA -> GRPQUOTA
145 * Fix disk_free calculation with group quotas.
146 * Add debug class 'quota' and a lot of DEBUG()'s
148 * Fix sys_chown() when no chown() is present.
151 o Tim Potter <tpot@samba.org>
152 * BUG 905: Remove POBAD_CC to fix Solaris Forte compiles.
155 o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
156 * Add smbget utility - a wget-clone for the SMB/CIFS protocol.
157 * Fix for libnss_wins on IRIX platforms.
158 * Fix swatdir for --with-fhs.
163 ----------------------
165 Parameter Name Action
166 -------------- ------
167 ldap replication sleep New
173 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
174 * Tidy up of NTLMSSP code.
175 * Fixes for SMB signing errors
176 * BUG 815: Workaround NT4 bug to support plaintext
177 password logins and UNICODE.
180 o Petri Asikainen <paca@sci.fi>
181 * BUG 330, 387:Fix single valued attribute updates when
182 working with Novell NDS.
185 o Andrew Bartlet <abartlet@samba.org>
186 * Correctly handle per-pipe NTLMSSP inside a NULL session.
187 * Fix segfault in gencache
188 * Fix early free() of encrypted_session_key.
189 * Change DC lookup routines to more carefully separate
190 DNS names (realms) from NetBIOS domain names.
191 * Add new sid_to_dn() function for internal winbindd use.
192 * Refactor cli_ds_enum_domain_trusts().
193 * BUG 707: Implement range retrieval of ADS attributes (based
194 on work from Volker <vl@samba.org> and Guenther Deschner
196 * Automatically initialize the signing engine if a session key
198 * BUG 916: Do not perform a + -> ' ' substitution for squid URL
199 encoded strings, only form input in SWAT.
200 * Resets the NTLMSSP state for new negotiate packets.
201 * Add 2-byte alignments in net_samlogon() queries to parse
202 odd-length plain text passwords.
203 * Allow Windows groups with no members in winbindd.
204 * Allow normal authentication in the absence of a server
205 generated session key.
206 * More optimizations for looking up UNIX group lists.
207 * Clean up error codes and return values for pam_winbindd
208 and winbindd PAM interface.
209 * Fix restring return values in ntlm_auth tool.
212 o Dmitry Butskoj <buc@odusz.elektra.ru>
213 * Fix for special files being hidden from admins.
216 o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
217 * Fix bug in the lanman session key generation. Caused
218 "decode_pw: incorrect password length" error messages.
219 * Save the right case for the located user name in
220 fill_sam_account(). Fixes %U/%u expansion for win9x clients.
221 * BUG 897: Add well known rid for pre win2k compatible access
223 * BUG 887: Correct typo in delete user script example.
224 * Use short lived TALLOC_CTX* for allocating printer objects
225 from the print handle cache.
226 * BUG 912: Fix check for HAVE_MEMORY_KEYTAB.
229 o Guenther Deschner <gd@suse.com>
230 * Install smbwrapper.so should be put into the $(libdir)
232 * Add the capability to specify the new user password
233 for "net ads password" on the command line.
234 * Correctly detect AFS headers on SuSE.
237 o James Flemer <jflemer@uvm.edu>
238 * Fix AIX compile bug by linking HAVE_ATTR_LIST to
239 HAVE_SYS_ATTRIBUTES_H.
242 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
243 * BUG 583: Ensure that user names always contain the short
244 version of the domain name.
245 * Fix our parsing of the LDAP uri.
246 * Don't show the 'afs username map' in the SWAT basic view.
247 * Fix SMB signing issues in relation to failed NTLMSSP logins.
248 * BUG 924: Fix return codes in smbtorture harness.
249 * Always lower-case usernames before handing it to AFS code.
252 o Jianliang Lu <j.lu@tiesse.com>
253 * Ensure we delete the group mapping before calling the delete
255 * Define well known RID for managing the "Power Users" group.
258 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@metzemix.de>
259 * Implement LDAP rebind sleep patch.
260 * Revert to 2.2 quota code because of so many broken quota files
265 * Allow an existing LDAP machine account to be re-used when
266 joining an AD domain.
269 o James Peach <jpeach@sgi.com>
270 * BUG 889: Change smbd to use pread/pwrite on platforms that
271 support these calls. Can lead to a significant speed increase.
274 o Tim Potter <tpot@samba.org>
275 * BUG 924: Fix typo in RW2 torture test.
278 o Richard Sharpe <shape@samba.org>
279 * Small fixes to torture.c to cleanup the error handling
283 o J. Tournier <jerome.tournier@IDEALX.com>
284 * Small fixes for the smbldap-tool scripts.
287 o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
288 * Put functions for generating SQL queries in pdb_sql.c
289 * Add pgSQL backend (based on patch by Hamish Friedlander)
290 * BUG 908: Fix -s option to smbcontrol.
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296 Parameter Name Action
297 -------------- ------
298 hide local users Removed
299 mangled map Deprecated
300 mangled stack Removed
301 passwd chat timeout New
307 o Change the interface for init_unistr2 to not take a length
308 but a flags field. We were assuming that
309 2*strlen(mb_string) == length of ucs2-le string. (bug 480).
310 o Allow d_printf() to handle strings with escaped quotation
311 marks since the msg file includes the escape character (bug 489).
312 o Fix bad html table row termination in SWAT wizard code (bug 413).
313 o Fix to parse the level-2 strings.
314 o Fix for "valid users = %S" in [homes]. Fix read/write
316 o Change AC_CHECK_LIB_EXT to prepend libraries instead of append.
317 This is the same way AC_CHECK_LIB works (bug 508).
318 o Testparm output fixes for clarity.
319 o Fix broken wins hook functionality -- i18n bug (bug 528).
320 o Take care of condition where DOS and NT error codes must differ.
321 o Default to using only built-in charsets when a working iconv
322 implementation cannot be located.
323 o Wrap internals of sys_setgroups() so the sys_XX() call can
324 be done unconditionally (bug 550).
325 o Remove duplicate smbspool link on SWAT's front page (bug 541).
326 o Save and restore CFLAGS before/after AC_PROG_CC. Ensures that
327 --enable-debug=[yes|no] works correctly.
328 o Allow ^C to interrupt smbpasswd if using our getpass
329 (e.g. smbpasswd command).
330 o Support signing only on RPC's (bug 167).
331 o Correct bug that prevented Excel 2000 clients from opening
332 files marked as read-only.
333 o Portability fix bugs 546 - 549).
334 o Explicitly initialize the value of AR for vendor makes that don't
335 do this (e.g. HPUX 11). (bug 552).
336 o More i18n fixes for SWAT (bug 413).
337 o Change the cwd before the postexec script to ensure that a
339 o Correct double free that caused winbindd to crash when a DC
340 is rebooted (bug 437).
341 o Fix incorrect mode sum (bug 562).
342 o Canonicalize SMB_INFO_ALLOCATION in the same was as
343 SMB_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION (bug 564).
344 o Add script to generate *msg files.
345 o Add Dutch SWAT translation file.
346 o Make sure to call get_user_groups() with the full winbindd
347 name for a user if he/she has one (bug 406).
348 o Fix up error code returns from Samba4 tester. Ensure invalid
349 paths are validated the same way.
350 o Allow Samba3 to pass the Samba4 RAW-READ tests.
351 o Refuse to configure if --with-expsam=$BACKEND was used but no
352 libraries were found for $BACKEND.
353 o Move sysquotas autoconf tests to a separate file.
354 o Match W2K w.r.t. writelock and writeclose. Samba4 torture
356 o Make sure that the files that contain the static_init_$subsystem;
357 macro get recompiled after configure by removing the object
359 o Ensure canceling a blocking lock returns the correct error
361 o Match Samba 2.2 behavior; make ACB_NORMAL the default ACB value.
362 o Updated Japanese welcome file in SWAT.
363 o Fix to nt-time <-> unix-time functions reversible.
364 o Ensure that winbindd uses the the escaped DN when querying
366 o Fix portability issues when compiling (bug 505, 550)
367 o Compile fix for tdbbackup when Samba needs to override
368 non-C99 compliant implementations of snprintf().
369 o Use @PICSUFFIX@ instead of .po in Makefile.in (bug 574).
370 o Make sure we break out of samsync loop on error.
371 o Ensure error code path doesn't free unmalloc()'d memory
373 o Add configure test for krb5_keytab_entry keyblock vs key
376 o Modified testparm so that all output so all debug output goes
377 to stderr, and all file processing goes to stdout.
378 o Fix error return code for BUFFER_TOO_SMALL in smbcacls
380 o Fix "NULL dest in safe_strcpy()" log message by ensuring that
381 we have a devmode before copying a string to the devicename.
382 o Support mapping REALM.COM\user to a local user account (without
383 running winbindd) for compatibility with 2.2.x release.
384 o Ensure we don't use mmap() on blacklisted systems.
385 o fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks in the AIX
387 o Call initgroups() in SWAT before becomming the user so that
388 secondary group permissions can be used when writing to
390 o Fix signing problems when reverse connecting back to a
391 client for printer notify
392 o Fix signing problems caused by a miss-sequence bug.
393 o Missing map in errormap for ERROR_MORE_DATA -> ERRDOS, ERRmoredata.
394 Fixes NEXUS tools running on Win9x clients (bug 64).
395 o Don't leave the domain field uninitialized in cli_lsa.c if some
396 SID could not be mapped.
397 o Fix segfault in mount.cifs helper when there is no options
398 specified during mount.
399 o Change the \n after the password prompt to go to tty instead
401 o Stop net -P from prompting for machine account password (bug 451).
402 o Change in behavior to Not only change the effective uid but also
403 the real uid when becoming unprivileged.
404 o Cope with Exchange 5.5 cleartext pop password auth.
405 o New files for support of initshutdown pipe. Win2k doesn't
406 respond properly to all requests on the winreg pipe, so we need
407 to handle this new pipe (bug 534).
408 o Added more va_copy() checks in configure.in.
409 o Include fixes for libsmbclient build problems.
410 o Missing UNIX -> DOS codepage conversion in lanman.c.
411 o Allow DFMS-S filenames can now have arbitrary case (bug 667).
412 o Parameterize the listen backlog in smbd and make it larger by
413 default. A backlog of 5 is way too small these days.
414 o Check for an invalid fid before dereferencing the fsp pointer
416 o Remove invalid memory frees and return codes in pdb_ldap.c.
417 o Prompt for password when invoking --set-auth-user and no
419 o Bind the nmbd sending socket to the 'socket address'.
420 o Re-order link command for smbd, rpcclient and smbpasswd to ensure
421 $LDFLAGS occurs before any library specification (bug 661).
422 o Fix large number of printf() calls for 64-bit size_t.
423 o Fix AC_CHECK_MEMBER so that SLES8 does correctly finds the
424 keyblock in the krb5 structs.
425 o Remove #include <compat.h> in hopes to avoid problems with
427 o Correct winbindd build problems on HP-UX 11.
428 o Lowercase netgroups lookups (bug 703).
429 o Use the actual size of the buffer in strftime instead of a made
430 up value which just happens to be less than sizeof(fstring).
432 o Add ldaplibs to pdbedit link line (bug 651).
433 o Fix crash bug in smbclient completion (bug 659).
434 o Fix packet length for browse list reply (bug 771).
435 o Fix coredump in cli_get_backup_list().
436 o Make sure that we expand %N (bug 612).
437 o Allow rpcclient adddriver command to specify printer driver
439 o Compile tdbdump by default.
440 o Apply patches to fix iconv detection for FreeBSD.
441 o Do not allow the 'guest account' to be added to a passdb backend
442 using smbpasswd or pdbedit (bug 624).
443 o Save LDFLAGS during iconv detection (bug 57).
444 o Run krb5 logins through the username map if the winbindd
445 lookup fails (bug 698).
446 o Add const for lp_set_name_resolve_order() to avoid compiler
448 o Add support for the %i macro in smb.conf to stand in for the for
449 the local IP address to which a client connected.
450 o Allow winbindd to match local accounts to domain SID when
451 'winbind trusted domains only = yes' (bug 680).
452 o Remove code in idmap_ldap that searches the user suffix and group
453 suffix. It's not needed and provides inconsistent functionality
454 from the tdb backend.
455 o Patch to handle munged dial string for Windows 200 TSE.
456 o Correct the "smbldap_open: cannot access when not root error"
457 messages when looking up group information (bug 281).
458 o Skip over the winbind separator when looking up a user.
459 This fixes the bug that prevented local users from
460 matching an AD user when not running winbindd (bug 698).
461 o Fix a problem with configure on *BSD systems. Make sure
462 we add -liconv etc to LDFLAGS.
463 o Fix core dump bug when "security = server" and the authentication
465 o Correct crash bug due to an empty munged dial string.
466 o Show files locked by a specific user (smbstatus -u 'user')
468 o Fix bug preventing print jobs from display in the queue
469 monitor used by Windows NT and later clients (bug 660).
470 o Fix several reported problems with point-n-print from
471 Windows 2000/XP clients due to a bug in the EnumPrinterDataEx()
472 reply (bug 338, 527 & 643).
473 o Fix a handful of potential memory leaks in the LDAP code used
474 by ldapsam[_compat] and the LDAP idmap backend.
475 o Fix for pdbedit error code returns (bug 763).
476 o Make sure we only enumerate group mapping entries (not
477 /etc/group) even when doing local aliases.
478 o Relax check on the pipe name in a dce/rpc bind response to work
479 around issues with establishing trusts to a Windows 2003 domain.
480 o Ensure we mangle names ending in '.' in hash2 mangling method.
481 o Correct parsing issues with munged dial string.
482 o Fix bugs in quota support for XFS.
483 o Add a cleaner method for applications that need to provide
484 name->SID mappings to do this via NSS rather than having to
485 know the winbindd pipe protocol.
486 o Adds a variant of the winbindd_getgroups() call called
487 winbindd_getusersids() that provides direct SID->SIDs listing of
488 a users supplementary groups. This is enough to allow non-Samba
489 applications to do ACL checking.
490 o Make sure we don't append the 'ldap suffix' when writing out the
491 'ldap XXX suffix' values in SWAT (bug 328).
492 o Fix renames across file systems.
493 o Ensure that items in a list of strings containing whitespace are
494 written out surrounded by single quotes. This means that both
495 double and single quotes are now used to surround strings in
497 o Enable SWAT to correctly determine if winbindd is running (bug
499 o Include WWW-Authenticate field in 401 response for bad auth
501 o Add support for NTLM2 (NTLMv2 session security).
502 o Add support for variable-length session keys.
503 o More privilege fixes for group enumeration in LDAP (bug 281).
504 o Use the dns name (or IP) as the originating client name when
505 using CUPS (bug 467).
506 o Fix various SMB signing bugs.
507 o Fix ACL propagation on a DFS root (bug 263).
508 o Disable NTLM2 for RPC pipes.
509 o Allow the client to specify the NTLM2 flags got NTLMSSP
511 o Change the name of the job passed off to cups from "Test Page"
512 to "smbprn.00000033 Test Page" so that we can get the smb
513 jobid back. This allow users to delete jobs with cups printing
514 backend (partial work on bug 770).
515 o Fix build of winbindd with static pdb modules.
516 o Retrieve the correct ACL group bits if the file has an ACL
518 o Implement "net rpc group members": Get members of a domain group
519 in human-readable format.
520 o Add MacOSX (Darwin) specific charset module code.
521 o Use samr_dispinfo(level == 1) for enumerating domain users so we
522 can include the full name in gecos field (bug 587).
523 o Add support for winbind's NSS library on FeeeBSD 5.1 (bug 797).
524 o Implement 'net rpc group list [global|local|builtin]*' for a
525 select listing of the respective user databases.
526 o Don't automatically set NT status code flag unless client tells
528 o Add 'net status [sessions|shares] [parseable]'.
529 o Don't mistake pre-existing UNIX jobs for smb jobs (remainder of
531 o Add 'Replicator' and 'RAS Servers' to list of builtin SIDs
533 o Fix inverted logic in hosts allow/deny checks caused by
534 s/strcmp/strequal/ (bug 846).
535 o Implement correct version SamrRemoveSidForeignDomain() (bug 252).
536 o Fix typo in 'hash' mangling algorithm.
537 o Support munged dial for ldapsam (bug 800).
538 o Fix process_incoming_data() to return the number of bytes handled
539 this call whether we have a complete PDU or not; fixes bug
540 with multiple PDU request rpc's broken over SMBwriteX calls
542 o Fix incorrect smb flags2 for connections to pre-NT servers
543 (causes smbclient to fail to OS2 for example) (bug 821).
544 o Update version string in smbldap-tools Makefile to 0.8.2.
545 o Correct a problem with "net rpc vampire" mis-parsing the
546 alias member info reply.
547 o Ensure the ${libdir} is created by the installclientlib script.
548 o Fix detection of Windows 2003 client architecture in the smb.conf
550 o Ensure that smbd calls the add user script for a missing UNIX
551 user on kerberos auth call (bug 445).
552 o Fix bugs in hosts allow/deny when using a mismatched
553 network/netmask pair.
554 o Protect alloc_sub_basic() from crashing when the source string
555 is NULL (partial work on bug 687).
556 o Fix spinlocks on IRIX.
557 o Corrected some bad destination paths when running "configure
559 o Add packaging files for Fedora Core 1.
560 o Correct bug in SWAT install script for non-english languages.
561 o Support character set ISO-8859-1 internally (bug 558).
562 o Fixed more LDAP access errors when looking up group mappings
564 o Fix UNISTR2 length bug in LsaQueryInfo(3) that caused SID
565 resolution to fail on local files on on domain members
567 o Fix uninitialized variable in passdb.c.
568 o Fix formal parameter type in get_static() in nsswitch/wins.c.
569 o Fix problem mounting directories when mount.cifs is installed
570 with the setuid bit on.
571 o Fix bug that prevent --mandir from overriding the defaults
572 given in the --with-fhs macro.
573 o Fix bug in in-memory Kerberos keytab detection routines
578 ######################################################################
580 =======================================
581 The original 3.0.0 release notes follow
582 =======================================
588 1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to
589 join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate
590 users using LDAP/Kerberos.
592 2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire
593 and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for
594 multi-byte and UNICODE character sets.
596 3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system
597 has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are
598 internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable.
600 4) New default filename mangling system.
602 5) A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to
603 the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace
604 numerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands
607 6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
608 improves error handling a lot.
610 7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing
611 printer attributes in active directory.
613 8) New loadable module support for passdb backends and character
616 9) New default dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance.
618 10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba
619 domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs.
621 11) Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
624 12) Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using
625 an LDAP directory for storing SID to uid/gid mappings.
627 13) Major updates to the Samba documentation tree.
629 14) Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure
630 compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings.
632 15) Improvement of ACL mapping features based on code donated by
636 Plus lots of other improvements!
639 Additional Documentation
640 ------------------------
642 Please refer to Samba documentation tree (included in the docs/
643 subdirectory) for extensive explanations of installing, configuring
644 and maintaining Samba 3.0 servers and clients. It is advised to
645 begin with the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for overviews and specific
646 tasks (the current book is up to approximately 400 pages) and to
647 refer to the various man pages for information on individual options.
649 We are very glad to be able to include the second edition of
650 "Using Samba" by Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, and David Collier-Brown
651 (O'Reilly & Associates) in this release. The book is available
652 on-line at http://samba.org/samba/docs/ and is included with
653 the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT). Thanks to the authors and
654 publisher for making "Using Samba" under the GNU Free Documentation
658 ######################################################################
659 Upgrading from a previous Samba 3.0 beta
660 ########################################
662 Beginning with Samba 3.0.0beta3, the RID allocation functions
663 have been moved into winbindd. Previously these were handled
664 by each passdb backend. This means that winbindd must be running
665 to automatically allocate RIDs for users and/or groups. Otherwise,
666 smbd will use the 2.2 algorithm for generating new RIDs.
668 If you are using 'passdb backend = tdbsam' with a previous Samba
669 3.0 beta release (or possibly alpha), it may be necessary to
670 move the RID_COUNTER entry from /usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb
671 to winbindd_idmap.tdb. To do this:
673 1) Ensure that winbindd_idmap.tdb exists (launch winbindd at least
675 2) build tdbtool by executing 'make tdbtool' in the source/tdb/
677 3) run: (note that 'tdb>' is the tool's prompt for input)
679 root# ./tdbtool /usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb
680 tdb> show RID_COUNTER
684 [000] 0A 52 00 00 .R.
686 tdb> move RID_COUNTER /usr/local/samba/var/locks/winbindd_idmap.tdb
690 If you are using 'passdb backend = ldapsam', it will be necessary to
691 store idmap entries in the LDAP directory as well (i.e. idmap backend
692 = ldap). Refer to the 'net idmap' command for more information on
693 migrating SID<->UNIX id mappings from one backend to another.
695 If the RID_COUNTER record does not exist, then these instructions are
696 unneccessary and the new RID_COUNTER record will be correctly generated
701 ########################
702 Upgrading from Samba 2.2
703 ########################
705 This section is provided to help administrators understand the details
706 involved with upgrading a Samba 2.2 server to Samba 3.0.
712 Many of the options to the GNU autoconf script have been modified
713 in the 3.0 release. The most noticeable are:
715 * removal of --with-tdbsam (is now included by default; see section
716 on passdb backends and authentication for more details)
718 * --with-ldapsam is now on used to provided backward compatible
719 parameters for LDAP enabled Samba 2.2 servers. Refer to the passdb
720 backend and authentication section for more details
722 * inclusion of non-standard passdb modules may be enabled using
723 --with-expsam. This includes an XML backend and a mysql backend.
725 * removal of --with-msdfs (is now enabled by default)
727 * removal of --with-ssl (no longer supported)
729 * --with-utmp now defaults to 'yes' on supported systems
731 * --with-sendfile-support is now enabled by default on supported
738 This section contains a brief listing of changes to smb.conf options
739 in the 3.0.0 release. Please refer to the smb.conf(5) man page for
740 complete descriptions of new or modified parameters.
742 Removed Parameters (order alphabetically):
745 * alternate permissions
748 * code page directory
752 * force unknown acl user
757 * printer driver file
758 * printer driver location
766 New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function):
770 * abort shutdown script
773 User and Group Account Management
774 ---------------------------------
777 * add user to group script
778 * algorithmic rid base
779 * delete group script
780 * delete user from group script
782 * set primary group script
788 * passwd chat timeout
799 * paranoid server security
809 * hide unwriteable files
811 * kernel change notify
821 * max reported print jobs
823 UNICODE and Character Sets
824 --------------------------
830 SID to uid/gid Mappings
831 -----------------------
835 * winbind enable local accounts
836 * winbind trusted domains only
837 * template primary group
838 * enable rid algorithm
845 * ldap machine suffix
849 General Configuration
850 ---------------------
854 Modified Parameters (changes in behavior):
856 * encrypt passwords (enabled by default)
857 * mangling method (set to 'hash2' by default)
860 * restrict anonymous (integer value)
861 * security (new 'ads' value)
862 * strict locking (enabled by default)
863 * unix extensions (enabled by default)
864 * winbind cache time (increased to 5 minutes)
865 * winbind uid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap uid')
866 * winbind gid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap gid')
872 This section contains brief descriptions of any new databases
873 introduced in Samba 3.0. Please remember to backup your existing
874 ${lock directory}/*tdb before upgrading to Samba 3.0. Samba will
875 upgrade databases as they are opened (if necessary), but downgrading
876 from 3.0 to 2.2 is an unsupported path.
878 Name Description Backup?
879 ---- ----------- -------
880 account_policy User policy settings yes
881 gencache Generic caching db no
882 group_mapping Mapping table from Windows yes
883 groups/SID to unix groups
884 winbindd_idmap ID map table from SIDS to UNIX yes
886 namecache Name resolution cache entries no
887 netsamlogon_cache Cache of NET_USER_INFO_3 structure no
888 returned as part of a successful
889 net_sam_logon request
890 printing/*.tdb Cached output from 'lpq no
891 command' created on a per print
893 registry Read-only samba registry skeleton no
894 that provides support for exporting
895 various db tables via the winreg RPCs
901 The following issues are known changes in behavior between Samba 2.2 and
902 Samba 3.0 that may affect certain installations of Samba.
904 1) When operating as a member of a Windows domain, Samba 2.2 would
905 map any users authenticated by the remote DC to the 'guest account'
906 if a uid could not be obtained via the getpwnam() call. Samba 3.0
907 rejects the connection as NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE. There is no
908 current work around to re-establish the 2.2 behavior.
910 2) When adding machines to a Samba 2.2 controlled domain, the
911 'add user script' was used to create the UNIX identity of the
912 machine trust account. Samba 3.0 introduces a new 'add machine
913 script' that must be specified for this purpose. Samba 3.0 will
914 not fall back to using the 'add user script' in the absence of
915 an 'add machine script'
918 ######################################################################
919 Passdb Backends and Authentication
920 ##################################
922 There have been a few new changes that Samba administrators should be
923 aware of when moving to Samba 3.0.
925 1) encrypted passwords have been enabled by default in order to
926 inter-operate better with out-of-the-box Windows client
927 installations. This does mean that either (a) a samba account
928 must be created for each user, or (b) 'encrypt passwords = no'
929 must be explicitly defined in smb.conf.
931 2) Inclusion of new 'security = ads' option for integration
932 with an Active Directory domain using the native Windows
933 Kerberos 5 and LDAP protocols.
935 MIT kerberos 1.3.1 supports the ARCFOUR-HMAC-MD5 encryption
936 type which is neccessary for servers on which the
937 administrator password has not been changed, or kerberos-enabled
938 SMB connections to servers that require Kerberos SMB signing.
939 Besides this one difference, either MIT or Heimdal Kerberos
940 distributions are usable by Samba 3.0.
943 Samba 3.0 also includes the possibility of setting up chains
944 of authentication methods (auth methods) and account storage
945 backends (passdb backend). Please refer to the smb.conf(5)
946 man page for details. While both parameters assume sane default
947 values, it is likely that you will need to understand what the
948 values actually mean in order to ensure Samba operates correctly.
950 The recommended passdb backends at this time are
952 * smbpasswd - 2.2 compatible flat file format
953 * tdbsam - attribute rich database intended as an smbpasswd
954 replacement for stand alone servers
955 * ldapsam - attribute rich account storage and retrieval
956 backend utilizing an LDAP directory.
957 * ldapsam_compat - a 2.2 backward compatible LDAP account
960 Certain functions of the smbpasswd(8) tool have been split between the
961 new smbpasswd(8) utility, the net(8) tool, and the new pdbedit(8)
962 utility. See the respective man pages for details.
965 ######################################################################
969 This section outlines the new features affecting Samba / LDAP
975 A new object class (sambaSamAccount) has been introduced to replace
976 the old sambaAccount. This change aids us in the renaming of attributes
977 to prevent clashes with attributes from other vendors. There is a
978 conversion script (examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount) to modify and LDIF
979 file to the new schema.
983 $ ldapsearch .... -b "ou=people,dc=..." > old.ldif
984 $ convertSambaAccount <DOM SID> old.ldif new.ldif
986 The <DOM SID> can be obtained by running 'net getlocalsid <DOMAINNAME>'
987 on the Samba PDC as root.
989 The old sambaAccount schema may still be used by specifying the
990 "ldapsam_compat" passdb backend. However, the sambaAccount and
991 associated attributes have been moved to the historical section of
992 the schema file and must be uncommented before use if needed.
993 The 2.2 object class declaration for a sambaAccount has not changed
994 in the 3.0 samba.schema file.
996 Other new object classes and their uses include:
998 * sambaDomain - domain information used to allocate rids
999 for users and groups as necessary. The attributes are added
1000 in 'ldap suffix' directory entry automatically if
1001 an idmap uid/gid range has been set and the 'ldapsam'
1002 passdb backend has been selected.
1004 * sambaGroupMapping - an object representing the
1005 relationship between a posixGroup and a Windows
1006 group/SID. These entries are stored in the 'ldap
1007 group suffix' and managed by the 'net groupmap' command.
1009 * sambaUnixIdPool - created in the 'ldap idmap suffix' entry
1010 automatically and contains the next available 'idmap uid' and
1013 * sambaIdmapEntry - object storing a mapping between a
1014 SID and a UNIX uid/gid. These objects are created by the
1015 idmap_ldap module as needed.
1017 * sambaSidEntry - object representing a SID alone, as a Structural
1018 class on which to build the sambaIdmapEntry.
1021 New Suffix for Searching
1022 ------------------------
1024 The following new smb.conf parameters have been added to aid in directing
1025 certain LDAP queries when 'passdb backend = ldapsam://...' has been
1028 * ldap suffix - used to search for user and computer accounts
1029 * ldap user suffix - used to store user accounts
1030 * ldap machine suffix - used to store machine trust accounts
1031 * ldap group suffix - location of posixGroup/sambaGroupMapping entries
1032 * ldap idmap suffix - location of sambaIdmapEntry objects
1034 If an 'ldap suffix' is defined, it will be appended to all of the
1035 remaining sub-suffix parameters. In this case, the order of the suffix
1036 listings in smb.conf is important. Always place the 'ldap suffix' first
1039 Due to a limitation in Samba's smb.conf parsing, you should not surround
1040 the DN's with quotation marks.
1046 Samba 3.0 supports an ldap backend for the idmap subsystem. The
1047 following options would inform Samba that the idmap table should be
1048 stored on the directory server onterose in the "ou=idmap,dc=plainjoe,
1053 idmap backend = ldap:ldap://onterose/
1054 ldap idmap suffix = ou=idmap,dc=plainjoe,dc=org
1055 idmap uid = 40000-50000
1056 idmap gid = 40000-50000
1058 This configuration allows winbind installations on multiple servers to
1059 share a uid/gid number space, thus avoiding the interoperability problems
1060 with NFS that were present in Samba 2.2.
1064 ######################################################################
1065 Trust Relationships and a Samba Domain
1066 ######################################
1068 Samba 3.0.0beta2 is able to utilize winbindd as the means of
1069 allocating uids and gids to trusted users and groups. More
1070 information regarding Samba's support for establishing trust
1071 relationships can be found in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection included
1072 in the docs/ directory of this release.
1074 First create your Samba PDC and ensure that everything is
1075 working correctly before moving on the trusts.
1077 To establish Samba as the trusting domain (named SAMBA) from a Windows NT
1078 4.0 domain named WINDOWS:
1080 1) create the trust account for SAMBA in "User Manager for Domains"
1081 2) connect the trust from the Samba domain using
1082 'net rpc trustdom establish GLASS'
1084 To create a trustlationship with SAMBA as the trusted domain:
1086 1) create the initial trust account for GLASS using
1087 'smbpasswd -a -i GLASS'. You may need to create a UNIX
1088 account for GLASS$ prior to this step (depending on your
1089 local configuration).
1090 2) connect the trust from a WINDOWS DC using "User Manager
1093 Now join winbindd on the Samba PDC to the SAMBA domain using
1094 the normal steps for adding a Samba server to an NT4 domain:
1095 (note that smbd & nmbd must be running at this point)
1097 root# net rpc join -U root
1098 Password: <enter root password from smbpasswd file here>
1100 Start winbindd and test the join with 'wbinfo -t'.
1102 Now test the trust relationship by connecting to the SAMBA DC
1103 (e.g. POGO) as a user from the WINDOWS domain:
1105 $ smbclient //pogo/netlogon -U Administrator -W WINDOWS
1108 Now connect to the WINDOWS DC (e.g. CRYSTAL) as a Samba user:
1110 $ smbclient //crystal/netlogon -U root -W WINDOWS
1113 ######################################################################
1117 Beginning with Samba3.0.0beta3, winbindd has been given new account
1118 manage functionality equivalent to the 'add user script' family of
1119 smb.conf parameters. The idmap design has also been changed to
1120 centralize control of foreign SID lookups and matching to UNIX
1124 Brief Description of Changes
1125 ----------------------------
1127 1) The sid_to_uid() family of functions (smbd/uid.c) have been
1128 reverted to the 2.2.x design. This means that when resolving a
1129 SID to a UID or similar mapping:
1131 a) First consult winbindd
1132 b) perform a local lookup only if winbindd fails to
1133 return a successful answer
1135 There are some variations to this, but these two rules generally
1138 2) All idmap lookups have been moved into winbindd. This means that
1139 a server must run winbindd (and support NSS) in order to achieve
1140 any mappings of SID to dynamically allocated UNIX ids. This was
1141 a conscious design choice.
1143 3) New functions have been added to winbindd to emulate the 'add user
1144 script' family of smbd functions without requiring that external
1145 scripts be defined. This functionality is controlled by the 'winbind
1146 enable local accounts' smb.conf parameter (enabled by default).
1148 However, this account management functionality is only supported
1149 in a local tdb (winbindd_idmap.tdb). If these new UNIX accounts
1150 must be shared among multiple Samba servers (such as a PDC and BDCs),
1151 it will be necessary to define your own 'add user script', et. al.
1152 programs that place the accounts/groups in some form of directory
1153 such as NIS or LDAP. This requirement was deemed beyond the scope
1154 of winbind's account management functions. Solutions for
1155 distributing UNIX system information have been deployed and tested
1156 for many years. We saw no need to reinvent the wheel.
1158 4) A member of a Samba controlled domain running winbindd is now able
1159 to map domain users directly onto existing UNIX accounts while still
1160 automatically creating accounts for trusted users and groups. This
1161 behavior is controlled by the 'winbind trusted domains only' smb.conf
1162 parameter (disabled by default to provide 2.2.x winbind behavior).
1164 5) Group mapping support is wrapped in the local_XX_to_XX() functions
1165 in smbd/uid.c. The reason that group mappings are not included
1166 in winbindd is because the purpose of Samba's group map is to
1167 match any Windows SID with an existing UNIX group. These UNIX
1168 groups can be created by winbindd (see next section), but the
1169 SID<->gid mapping is retreived by smbd, not winbindd.
1175 * security = server running winbindd to allocate accounts on demand
1177 * Samba PDC running winbindd to handle the automatic creation of UNIX
1178 identities for machine trust accounts
1180 * Automtically creating UNIX user and groups when migrating a Windows NT
1181 4.0 PDC to a Samba PDC. Winbindd must be running when executing
1182 'net rpc vampire' for this to work.
1185 ######################################################################
1189 * There are several bugs currently logged against the 3.0 codebase
1190 that affect the use of NT 4.0 GUI domain management tools when run
1191 against a Samba 3.0 PDC. This bugs should be released in an early
1194 Please refer to https://bugzilla.samba.org/ for a current list of bugs
1195 filed against the Samba 3.0 codebase.
1198 ######################################################################
1199 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
1200 #######################################
1202 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
1203 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
1205 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
1206 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
1207 the problem then you will probably be ignored.
1209 A new bugzilla installation has been established to help support the
1210 Samba 3.0 community of users. This server, located at
1211 https://bugzilla.samba.org/, has replaced the older jitterbug server
1212 previously located at http://bugs.samba.org/.