1 WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alphaX
2 =============================
5 - LDAP schema updates (jerry)
6 - initial ADS LDAP printer advertising (jmcd)
7 - spoolss and printing updates (tpot, jerry)
8 (the is the major update in this alpha, and work continues)
9 - Winbindd connection cache improvements (abartlet)
10 - spnego segfault fixes (abartlet)
11 - net ads segfault fixes ( Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net>)
12 - header cleanups (tpot)
13 - Serialise domain auth requests - win2k bug (tridge)
14 - fix winbind talloced memory leak (dleducq@arkoon.net, tridge)
15 - call unmangle in don_unmangle (abartlet)
16 - UTF8 Charset functions - for ADS LDAP calls (Hasch@t-online.de)
17 - Fix security tab for mapped drives on unicode clients (tridge)
18 - Better configure tests for snprintf and immidiate structures (abartlet)
19 - allow 'passdb backend = plugin : /path/to/plugin.so : plguin args'
20 (loads a passdb module) (Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@nl.linux.org>)
21 - change the way we store our domain join info - you will need to
22 rejoin the domain (tridge)
23 - xcopy /o fixes (tridge)
24 - fix the 'convert_string' level 0 debugs.
25 - Patch for Domain users not showing up from "Ivan Zhakov" <vunny@mail.ru>
27 - The beginning of trusted and trusting domain support - net commands
28 (Rafal Szczesniak <mimir@diament.ists.pwr.wroc.pl>)
29 - nmbd signal processing fixes (jra)
30 - lseek-on-pipe support (jra)
31 - Allow Samba to trust NT4 Domains (abartlet)
32 - LDAPsam updates (abartlet):
33 - Now runtime selectable (when configured)
34 - ldap user suffix and ldap group suffix support.
35 - non unix account support
36 - select with 'passdb backend = ldapsam' or 'passdb backend =
38 - start to allow NT4 domains to trust Samba, netlogon fixes (abartlet)
39 - make default unix charset UTF8 (tridge)
40 - Fix SIGSEGV on error message when trying to add a user to smbpasswd
41 file without a unix account (jmcd)
42 - better detection of dead ADS connections, so we have some chance of
44 - removed bogus prepend_domain() call which was screwing up getpwuid()
45 with the new default domain code
46 - Domain/workstation SID fixes.
47 - patch from Alexey Kotovich <a.kotovich@sam-solutions.net> that adds
48 the security decsriptor code for ADS workstation accounts.
49 (allow self password change, self remove)
50 (after much review and disscussion with abartlet and tridge)
53 - Improvements in pam_winbind/winbindd_pam.c: (abartlet)
54 - Much better error reporting
55 - Password changing is now stackable
56 - now returns multiple PAM errors based on the NTSTATUS
58 - returns an error string the client can use in their own logs.
59 - Print form updates (tpot)
60 - added 'wbinfo --sequence' to show sequence numbers of
62 - better winbind memory mangement (tridge)
63 - make signal processing work correctly in winbindd
64 Michael Steffens <michael_steffens@hp.com>
65 - Inital ADS printer publishing work. (jmcd)
67 - large debian packaging checking from Eloy. (merge by jerry)
68 - Make smbgroupedit a little easier on the user (select groups
69 by name rather than by sid) (abartlet)
70 - rework parts of smbtorture (tridge)
73 - 'Winbind Default Domain' support:
74 This allows winbind to supply usernames without a 'DOMAIN\'
75 prefix. Particularly handy for shell and e-mail servers,
76 as well as Unix workstations in NT domains.
77 - Associated cleanups in winbindd and smbd.
78 (Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net> and
80 - Winbind protocol changes for better Squid intergration
81 (current version is 3) (abartlet)
82 - pam_winbind password changing
83 (Samuel Ziegler <sam@xpedion.com>, tpot)
84 - runtime selectable pluggable passdb interface.
86 - 'non unix account' support (abartlet)
87 (This allows machines and even users not to exist
89 - Inital implementation of the WINS replication deamon
91 - Changes for better winbind PDC/BDC failover support
93 - Various Winbind/ADS mode stabilty and flexablity fixes
95 - Mangle names like .bashrc properly (trige)
96 - CIFS UNIX extensions (client and server) (jra)
97 - Universal group support outside smbd (via a cache)
98 (Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net>)
99 - Write cache fixes (jra)
102 - updates to try to get more out-of-the-box compiles
103 (mostly kerberos and ldap stuff) (various)
104 - 'net rpc shutdown' remote shutdown of servers
105 (abartlet, original code from idra)
106 - authentication subsystem rework, including move to
107 new RPC client code (abartlet)
109 - use new client code (abartlet)
110 - change winbind_auth_pam_crap interface for squid's
112 - new interface versioning functionality (abartlet)
113 - cope better when inteface does change (tpot)
114 - better winbind trusted domain code (tpot)
115 - doc updates (jerry)
116 - new NTSTAUS -> DOS error map (abartlet)
117 - large user list (> 1500) enumeration (jra)
118 - dmalloc support (mbp)
119 - spoolss changes (tpot)
120 - talloc accounting (mbp)
122 - smbmount trivial fixup (abartlet)
123 - start of new unix extenions to CIFS (jra)
126 - doc updates (jerry)
127 - store domain sid on ADS join (tridge)
128 - allow a winbind username on ADS connection (tridge)
131 - fixed fallback to "ads server" option (tridge)
132 - fix ACL failure on HP HFS (jra)
133 - net ads password and net ads chostpass commands (Remus Koos)
134 - fixed valid char array generation (tridge)
135 - fixed QFS_INFO for win98 long filenames (tridge)
136 - added net lookup command (tridge)
137 - fixed map to guest with spnego (tridge)
138 - fixed irix warnings (tridge)
142 - hide unreadable fix using acl fns (jra)
143 - lsa_open_policy cleanup (jfm)
144 - mangled directories fix (jra)
145 - fix error return on bad pipe (jra)
146 - fix homes share with no home dir (tpot)
147 - fixed handling of dead or empty domains in winbindd (tridge)
148 - added talloc torture program (mbp)
149 - talloc debug code (mbp)
150 - added trusted domains to winbindd/ADS (tridge)
151 - fix trusted domains in auth code (tridge)
152 - new gss error handling code (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net & tridge)
153 - support mixed ADS/NT4 domains (tridge)
156 - nicer net error messages (tpot)
157 - trust account patches (mimir)
158 - solaris link option update (davecb)
159 - added lsa_query_secobj() server fn (jfm)
160 - spoolss changeid fix (jerry)
161 - domain auth error fix (jmcd)
162 - HPUX acl code (jra)
163 - set filetime on close fix (jra)
164 - allow select of org unit in ads join (tridge)
167 - fixed compile of wb_client.c (tridge)
168 - fixed net time to use localtime (tridge)
169 - net help cleanups (jmcd)
170 - debug level fix (tpot)
171 - utmp string length fixes (monyo)
176 - added "net ads info" to probe basic into on your ads server without
178 - improved some error handling
182 - added "net time zone" command (tridge)
183 - pam_smbpass updates (a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net)
184 - irix updates (herb)
185 - net rpc join handles existing machine acct (tridge)
189 - added "net time" command (tridge)
190 - allow client tools to specify a hostname of form HOST#xx (tridge)
191 - added wbinfo --set-auth-user (tpot)
192 - added lsaquerysecobj to rpcclient (tpot)
196 - fixed nexus/win9x user list (jfm)
197 - fixed large user/group lists in winbindd (tridge)
198 - fixed gssapi headers in redhat (jmcd)
199 - fixed rap error code handling (jra)
200 - more usermanager rpc calls (jfm)
201 - re-added RAP calls at top level to net command (tridge)
205 - fixed a silly tdb bug in alpha2 that affected internal databases
209 - we no longer use cyrus-sasl for LDAP SASL/gssapi. This makes our ADS
210 code much more robust.
211 - winbindd cache code rewritten to be much more efficient. It also
212 copes much better with server outages.
213 - jfm implemented full group mapping and smb.conf option 'domain admin
214 group' is now gone. Consult the GROUP-MAPPING-HOWTO.txt to know how
215 to gain back administrator rights.
216 - docs update started
217 - numerous small bugfixes
221 - winbindd now uses LDAP and works correctly with an ADS server in
223 - XFS quotas code on Linux
224 - group mapping code from JFM
225 - "net rpc join" command replaces smbpasswd -j
226 - fixed winbind initgroups
230 This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0 alpha0. This is NOT a stable
231 release. Use at your own risk.
233 The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
234 new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We are
235 planning on ceasing development on the 2.2.x release of Samba very
236 shortly and after that we will be concentrating on Samba 3.0. To
237 reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many
238 poeple as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and
239 hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing.
241 Note that Samba 3.0 is not anywhere near feature complete yet. There
242 is a lot more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have
243 done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a
244 stable release in a reasonable time frame.
246 This release is also missing major pieces of documentation, and there
247 are many parts of the docs that have not been updated to reflect the
248 new options and features in 3.0.
253 - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
254 as a member server and authenticate users using
255 LDAP/kerberos. Please read ADS-HOWTO.txt in the release for a very
256 rough guide on how to set this up.
258 - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate unicode on the wire and
259 interally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
260 and unicode character sets. You may need the "dos charset", "unix
261 charset" and "display charset" options. The unicode support is not
264 - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
265 been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
266 but the new auth system is also very configurable. Not documented
269 - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
270 completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
271 persistantly. This needs lots of testing.
273 - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
274 somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
275 to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
276 subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
279 - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
280 improves error handling a lot.
282 - better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
283 clients has improved greatly.
285 Plus lots of other changes!
287 Note that many new features are not documented. Don't let this stop
288 you from using Samba 3.0. It is particularly important that the basic
289 file/print serving abilities of Samba 3.0 are widely tested to ensure
290 that we have not broken any of the basic functionality. As we do more
291 alpha releases we will start to document the new features.
294 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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297 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
298 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.net
300 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
301 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
302 the problem then you will probably be ignored.