1 WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.2pre1
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5 This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.2 code base and is
6 provided for testing only. This release is *not* intended for
7 production servers. Use at your own risk.
9 There have been several bug fixes since the 3.0.1 release that
10 we feel are important to make available to the Samba community
11 for wider testings. See the "Changes" section for details on
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21 Please refer to the CVS log for the SAMBA_3_0 branch for complete
22 details. The list of changes per contributor are as follows:
26 ldap replication sleep New
32 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
33 * Tidy up of NTLMSSP code.
34 * Fixes for SMB signing errors
37 o Petri Asikainen <paca@sci.fi>
38 * BUG 330, 387:Fix single valued attribute updates when
39 working with Novell NDS.
42 o Andrew Bartlet <abartlet@samba.org>
43 * Correctly handle per-pipe NTLMSSP inside a NULL session.
44 * Fix segfault in gencache
45 * Fix early free() of encrypted_session_key.
46 * Change DC lookup routines to more carefully separate
47 DNS names (realms) from NetBIOS domain names.
48 * Add new sid_to_dn() utility function for internal winbindd use.
49 * Refactor cli_ds_enum_domain_trusts().
50 * BUG 707: Implement range retrieval of ADS attributes (based on
51 work from Volker <vl@samba.org> and Guenther Deschner
53 * Automatically initialize the signing engine if a session key is
55 * BUG 916: Do not perform a + -> ' ' substitution for squid URL
56 encoded strings, only form input in SWAT.
57 * Ensure Samba resets the NTLMSSP state for new negotiate packets.
58 * Add 2-byte alignments in net_samlogon() queries to parse odd-length
60 * Allow Windows groups with no members in winbindd.
61 * Allow normal authentication in the absence of a server
62 generated session key.
63 * More optimizations for looking up UNIX group lists.
64 * Clean up error codes and return values for pam_winbindd
65 and winbindd PAM interface.
66 * Fix restring return values in ntlm_auth tool.
69 o Dmitry Butskoj <buc@odusz.elektra.ru>
70 * Fix for special files being hidden from admins.
73 o Gerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>
74 * Fix bug in the lanman session key generation. Caused
75 "decode_pw: incorrect password length" error messages.
76 * Save the right case for the located user name in
77 fill_sam_account(). Fixes %U/%u expansion for win9x clients.
78 * BUG 897: Add well known rid for pre win2k compatible access
80 * BUG 887: Correct typo in delete user script example.
81 * Use short lived TALLOC_CTX* for allocating printer objects
82 from the print handle cache.
85 o Guenther Deschner <gd@suse.com>
86 * Install smbwrapper.so should be put into the $(libdir)
88 * Add the capability to specify the new user password
89 for 'net ads password' on the command line.
91 o James Flemer <jflemer@uvm.edu>
92 * Fix AIX compile bug by linking HAVE_ATTR_LIST to HAVE_SYS_ATTRIBUTES_H.
95 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
96 * BUG 583: Ensure that user names always contain the short version
98 * Fix our parsing of the LDAP uri.
99 * Don't show the 'afs username map' in the SWAT basic view.
100 * Fix SMB signing issues in relation to failed NTLMSSP logins.
101 * BUG 924: Fix return codes in smbtorture harness.
102 * Always lower-case usernames before handing it to AFS code.
105 o Jianliang Lu <j.lu@tiesse.com>
106 * Ensure we delete the group mapping before calling the delete
108 * Define well known RID for managing the "Power Users" group.
111 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@metzemix.de>
112 * Implement LDAP rebind sleep patch.
113 * Revert to 2.2 quota code because of so many broken quota files
116 o Tim Potter <tpot@samba.org>
117 * BUG 924: Fix typo in RW2 torture test.
119 o Richard Sharpe <shape@samba.org>
120 * Small fixes to torture.c to cleanup the error handling
124 o J. Tournier <jerome.tournier@IDEALX.com>
125 * Small fixes for the smbldap-tool scripts.
128 o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
129 * Put functions for generating SQL queries in pdb_sql.c
130 * Add pgSQL backend (based on patch by Hamish Friedlander)
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137 Parameter Name Action
138 -------------- ------
139 hide local users Removed
140 mangled map Deprecated
141 mangled stack Removed
142 passwd chat timeout New
147 o Change the interface for init_unistr2 to not take a length
148 but a flags field. We were assuming that
149 2*strlen(mb_string) == length of ucs2-le string. (bug 480).
150 o Allow d_printf() to handle strings with escaped quotation
151 marks since the msg file includes the escape character (bug 489).
152 o Fix bad html table row termination in SWAT wizard code (bug 413).
153 o Fix to parse the level-2 strings.
154 o Fix for "valid users = %S" in [homes]. Fix read/write
156 o Change AC_CHECK_LIB_EXT to prepend libraries instead of append.
157 This is the same way AC_CHECK_LIB works (bug 508).
158 o Testparm output fixes for clarity.
159 o Fix broken wins hook functionality -- i18n bug (bug 528).
160 o Take care of condition where DOS and NT error codes must differ.
161 o Default to using only built-in charsets when a working iconv
162 implementation cannot be located.
163 o Wrap internals of sys_setgroups() so the sys_XX() call can
164 be done unconditionally (bug 550).
165 o Remove duplicate smbspool link on SWAT's front page (bug 541).
166 o Save and restore CFLAGS before/after AC_PROG_CC. Ensures that
167 --enable-debug=[yes|no] works correctly.
168 o Allow ^C to interrupt smbpasswd if using our getpass
169 (e.g. smbpasswd command).
170 o Support signing only on RPC's (bug 167).
171 o Correct bug that prevented Excel 2000 clients from opening
172 files marked as read-only.
173 o Portability fix bugs 546 - 549).
174 o Explicitly initialize the value of AR for vendor makes that don't
175 do this (e.g. HPUX 11). (bug 552).
176 o More i18n fixes for SWAT (bug 413).
177 o Change the cwd before the postexec script to ensure that a
179 o Correct double free that caused winbindd to crash when a DC
180 is rebooted (bug 437).
181 o Fix incorrect mode sum (bug 562).
182 o Canonicalize SMB_INFO_ALLOCATION in the same was as
183 SMB_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION (bug 564).
184 o Add script to generate *msg files.
185 o Add Dutch SWAT translation file.
186 o Make sure to call get_user_groups() with the full winbindd
187 name for a user if he/she has one (bug 406).
188 o Fix up error code returns from Samba4 tester. Ensure invalid
189 paths are validated the same way.
190 o Allow Samba3 to pass the Samba4 RAW-READ tests.
191 o Refuse to configure if --with-expsam=$BACKEND was used but no
192 libraries were found for $BACKEND.
193 o Move sysquotas autoconf tests to a separate file.
194 o Match W2K w.r.t. writelock and writeclose. Samba4 torture
196 o Make sure that the files that contain the static_init_$subsystem;
197 macro get recompiled after configure by removing the object
199 o Ensure canceling a blocking lock returns the correct error
201 o Match Samba 2.2 behavior; make ACB_NORMAL the default ACB value.
202 o Updated Japanese welcome file in SWAT.
203 o Fix to nt-time <-> unix-time functions reversible.
204 o Ensure that winbindd uses the the escaped DN when querying
206 o Fix portability issues when compiling (bug 505, 550)
207 o Compile fix for tdbbackup when Samba needs to override
208 non-C99 compliant implementations of snprintf().
209 o Use @PICSUFFIX@ instead of .po in Makefile.in (bug 574).
210 o Make sure we break out of samsync loop on error.
211 o Ensure error code path doesn't free unmalloc()'d memory
213 o Add configure test for krb5_keytab_entry keyblock vs key
216 o Modified testparm so that all output so all debug output goes
217 to stderr, and all file processing goes to stdout.
218 o Fix error return code for BUFFER_TOO_SMALL in smbcacls
220 o Fix "NULL dest in safe_strcpy()" log message by ensuring that
221 we have a devmode before copying a string to the devicename.
222 o Support mapping REALM.COM\user to a local user account (without
223 running winbindd) for compatibility with 2.2.x release.
224 o Ensure we don't use mmap() on blacklisted systems.
225 o fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks in the AIX
227 o Call initgroups() in SWAT before becomming the user so that
228 secondary group permissions can be used when writing to
230 o Fix signing problems when reverse connecting back to a
231 client for printer notify
232 o Fix signing problems caused by a miss-sequence bug.
233 o Missing map in errormap for ERROR_MORE_DATA -> ERRDOS, ERRmoredata.
234 Fixes NEXUS tools running on Win9x clients (bug 64).
235 o Don't leave the domain field uninitialized in cli_lsa.c if some
236 SID could not be mapped.
237 o Fix segfault in mount.cifs helper when there is no options
238 specified during mount.
239 o Change the \n after the password prompt to go to tty instead
241 o Stop net -P from prompting for machine account password (bug 451).
242 o Change in behavior to Not only change the effective uid but also
243 the real uid when becoming unprivileged.
244 o Cope with Exchange 5.5 cleartext pop password auth.
245 o New files for support of initshutdown pipe. Win2k doesn't
246 respond properly to all requests on the winreg pipe, so we need
247 to handle this new pipe (bug 534).
248 o Added more va_copy() checks in configure.in.
249 o Include fixes for libsmbclient build problems.
250 o Missing UNIX -> DOS codepage conversion in lanman.c.
251 o Allow DFMS-S filenames can now have arbitrary case (bug 667).
252 o Parameterize the listen backlog in smbd and make it larger by
253 default. A backlog of 5 is way too small these days.
254 o Check for an invalid fid before dereferencing the fsp pointer
256 o Remove invalid memory frees and return codes in pdb_ldap.c.
257 o Prompt for password when invoking --set-auth-user and no
259 o Bind the nmbd sending socket to the 'socket address'.
260 o Re-order link command for smbd, rpcclient and smbpasswd to ensure
261 $LDFLAGS occurs before any library specification (bug 661).
262 o Fix large number of printf() calls for 64-bit size_t.
263 o Fix AC_CHECK_MEMBER so that SLES8 does correctly finds the
264 keyblock in the krb5 structs.
265 o Remove #include <compat.h> in hopes to avoid problems with
267 o Correct winbindd build problems on HP-UX 11.
268 o Lowercase netgroups lookups (bug 703).
269 o Use the actual size of the buffer in strftime instead of a made
270 up value which just happens to be less than sizeof(fstring).
272 o Add ldaplibs to pdbedit link line (bug 651).
273 o Fix crash bug in smbclient completion (bug 659).
274 o Fix packet length for browse list reply (bug 771).
275 o Fix coredump in cli_get_backup_list().
276 o Make sure that we expand %N (bug 612).
277 o Allow rpcclient adddriver command to specify printer driver
279 o Compile tdbdump by default.
280 o Apply patches to fix iconv detection for FreeBSD.
281 o Do not allow the 'guest account' to be added to a passdb backend
282 using smbpasswd or pdbedit (bug 624).
283 o Save LDFLAGS during iconv detection (bug 57).
284 o Run krb5 logins through the username map if the winbindd
285 lookup fails (bug 698).
286 o Add const for lp_set_name_resolve_order() to avoid compiler
288 o Add support for the %i macro in smb.conf to stand in for the for
289 the local IP address to which a client connected.
290 o Allow winbindd to match local accounts to domain SID when
291 'winbind trusted domains only = yes' (bug 680).
292 o Remove code in idmap_ldap that searches the user suffix and group
293 suffix. It's not needed and provides inconsistent functionality
294 from the tdb backend.
295 o Patch to handle munged dial string for Windows 200 TSE.
296 o Correct the "smbldap_open: cannot access when not root error"
297 messages when looking up group information (bug 281).
298 o Skip over the winbind separator when looking up a user.
299 This fixes the bug that prevented local users from
300 matching an AD user when not running winbindd (bug 698).
301 o Fix a problem with configure on *BSD systems. Make sure
302 we add -liconv etc to LDFLAGS.
303 o Fix core dump bug when "security = server" and the authentication
305 o Correct crash bug due to an empty munged dial string.
306 o Show files locked by a specific user (smbstatus -u 'user')
308 o Fix bug preventing print jobs from display in the queue
309 monitor used by Windows NT and later clients (bug 660).
310 o Fix several reported problems with point-n-print from
311 Windows 2000/XP clients due to a bug in the EnumPrinterDataEx()
312 reply (bug 338, 527 & 643).
313 o Fix a handful of potential memory leaks in the LDAP code used
314 by ldapsam[_compat] and the LDAP idmap backend.
315 o Fix for pdbedit error code returns (bug 763).
316 o Make sure we only enumerate group mapping entries (not
317 /etc/group) even when doing local aliases.
318 o Relax check on the pipe name in a dce/rpc bind response to work
319 around issues with establishing trusts to a Windows 2003 domain.
320 o Ensure we mangle names ending in '.' in hash2 mangling method.
321 o Correct parsing issues with munged dial string.
322 o Fix bugs in quota support for XFS.
323 o Add a cleaner method for applications that need to provide name->SID
324 mappings to do this via NSS rather than having to know the
325 winbindd pipe protocol.
326 o Adds a variant of the winbindd_getgroups() call called
327 winbindd_getusersids() that provides direct SID->SIDs listing of a
328 users supplementary groups. This is enough to allow non-Samba
329 applications to do ACL checking.
330 o Make sure we don't append the 'ldap suffix' when writing out the
331 'ldap XXX suffix' values in SWAT (bug 328).
332 o Fix renames across file systems.
333 o Ensure that items in a list of strings containing whitespace are
334 written out surrounded by single quotes. This means that both
335 double and single quotes are now used to surround strings in
337 o Enable SWAT to correctly determine if winbindd is running (bug
339 o Include WWW-Authenticate field in 401 response for bad auth
341 o Add support for NTLM2 (NTLMv2 session security).
342 o Add support for variable-length session keys.
343 o More privilege fixes for group enumeration in LDAP (bug 281).
344 o Use the dns name (or IP) as the originating client name when
345 using CUPS (bug 467).
346 o Fix various SMB signing bugs.
347 o Fix ACL propagation on a DFS root (bug 263).
348 o Disable NTLM2 for RPC pipes.
349 o Allow the client to specify the NTLM2 flags got NTLMSSP
351 o Change the name of the job passed off to cups from "Test Page" to
352 "smbprn.00000033 Test Page" so that we can get the smb jobid back.
353 This allow users to delete jobs with cups printing backend (partial
355 o Fix build of winbindd with static pdb modules.
356 o Retrieve the correct ACL group bits if the file has an ACL
358 o Implement "net rpc group members": Get members of a domain group
359 in human-readable format.
360 o Add MacOSX (Darwin) specific charset module code.
361 o Use samr_dispinfo(level == 1) for enumerating domain users so we
362 can include the full name in gecos field (bug 587).
363 o Add support for winbind's NSS library on FeeeBSD 5.1 (bug 797).
364 o Implement 'net rpc group list [global|local|builtin]*' for a
365 select listing of the respective user databases.
366 o Don't automatically set NT status code flag unless client tells
368 o Add 'net status [sessions|shares] [parseable]'.
369 o Don't mistake pre-existing UNIX jobs for smb jobs (remainder of
371 o Add 'Replicator' and 'RAS Servers' to list of builtin SIDs
373 o Fix inverted logic in hosts allow/deny checks caused by s/strcmp/strequal/
375 o Implement correct version SamrRemoveSidForeignDomain() (bug 252).
376 o Fix typo in 'hash' mangling algorithm.
377 o Support munged dial for ldapsam (bug 800).
378 o Fix process_incoming_data() to return the number of bytes handled this
379 call whether we have a complete PDU or not; fixes bug with multiple
380 PDU request rpc's broken over SMBwriteX calls each.
381 o Fix incorrect smb flags2 for connections to pre-NT servers (causes
382 smbclient to fail to OS2 for example) (bug 821).
383 o Update version string in smbldap-tools Makefile to 0.8.2.
384 o Correct a problem with "net rpc vampire" mis-parsing the
385 alias member info reply.
386 o Ensure the ${libdir} is created by the installclientlib script.
387 o Fix detection of Windows 2003 client architecture in the smb.conf
389 o Ensure that smbd calls the add user script for a missing UNIX
390 user on kerberos auth call (bug 445).
391 o Fix bugs in hosts allow/deny when using a mismatched
392 network/netmask pair.
393 o Protect alloc_sub_basic() from crashing when the source string
394 is NULL (partial work on bug 687).
395 o Fix spinlocks on IRIX.
396 o Corrected some bad destination paths when running "configure
398 o Add packaging files for Fedora Core 1.
399 o Correct bug in SWAT install script for non-english languages.
400 o Support character set ISO-8859-1 internally (bug 558).
401 o Fixed more LDAP access errors when looking up group mappings
403 o Fix UNISTR2 length bug in LsaQueryInfo(3) that caused SID
404 resolution to fail on local files on on domain members
406 o Fix uninitialized variable in passdb.c.
407 o Fix formal parameter type in get_static() in nsswitch/wins.c.
408 o Fix problem mounting directories when mount.cifs is installed
409 with the setuid bit on.
410 o Fix bug that prevent --mandir from overriding the defaults
411 given in the --with-fhs macro.
412 o Fix bug in in-memory Kerberos keytab detection routines
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418 =======================================
419 The original 3.0.0 release notes follow
420 =======================================
426 1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to
427 join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate
428 users using LDAP/Kerberos.
430 2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire
431 and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for
432 multi-byte and UNICODE character sets.
434 3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system
435 has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are
436 internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable.
438 4) New default filename mangling system.
440 5) A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to
441 the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace
442 numerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands
445 6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
446 improves error handling a lot.
448 7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing
449 printer attributes in active directory.
451 8) New loadable module support for passdb backends and character
454 9) New default dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance.
456 10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba
457 domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs.
459 11) Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
462 12) Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using
463 an LDAP directory for storing SID to uid/gid mappings.
465 13) Major updates to the Samba documentation tree.
467 14) Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure
468 compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings.
470 15) Improvement of ACL mapping features based on code donated by
474 Plus lots of other improvements!
477 Additional Documentation
478 ------------------------
480 Please refer to Samba documentation tree (included in the docs/
481 subdirectory) for extensive explanations of installing, configuring
482 and maintaining Samba 3.0 servers and clients. It is advised to
483 begin with the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for overviews and specific
484 tasks (the current book is up to approximately 400 pages) and to
485 refer to the various man pages for information on individual options.
487 We are very glad to be able to include the second edition of
488 "Using Samba" by Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, and David Collier-Brown
489 (O'Reilly & Associates) in this release. The book is available
490 on-line at http://samba.org/samba/docs/ and is included with
491 the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT). Thanks to the authors and
492 publisher for making "Using Samba" under the GNU Free Documentation
496 ######################################################################
497 Upgrading from a previous Samba 3.0 beta
498 ########################################
500 Beginning with Samba 3.0.0beta3, the RID allocation functions
501 have been moved into winbindd. Previously these were handled
502 by each passdb backend. This means that winbindd must be running
503 to automatically allocate RIDs for users and/or groups. Otherwise,
504 smbd will use the 2.2 algorithm for generating new RIDs.
506 If you are using 'passdb backend = tdbsam' with a previous Samba
507 3.0 beta release (or possibly alpha), it may be necessary to
508 move the RID_COUNTER entry from /usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb
509 to winbindd_idmap.tdb. To do this:
511 1) Ensure that winbindd_idmap.tdb exists (launch winbindd at least
513 2) build tdbtool by executing 'make tdbtool' in the source/tdb/
515 3) run: (note that 'tdb>' is the tool's prompt for input)
517 root# ./tdbtool /usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb
518 tdb> show RID_COUNTER
522 [000] 0A 52 00 00 .R.
524 tdb> move RID_COUNTER /usr/local/samba/var/locks/winbindd_idmap.tdb
528 If you are using 'passdb backend = ldapsam', it will be necessary to
529 store idmap entries in the LDAP directory as well (i.e. idmap backend
530 = ldap). Refer to the 'net idmap' command for more information on
531 migrating SID<->UNIX id mappings from one backend to another.
533 If the RID_COUNTER record does not exist, then these instructions are
534 unneccessary and the new RID_COUNTER record will be correctly generated
539 ########################
540 Upgrading from Samba 2.2
541 ########################
543 This section is provided to help administrators understand the details
544 involved with upgrading a Samba 2.2 server to Samba 3.0.
550 Many of the options to the GNU autoconf script have been modified
551 in the 3.0 release. The most noticeable are:
553 * removal of --with-tdbsam (is now included by default; see section
554 on passdb backends and authentication for more details)
556 * --with-ldapsam is now on used to provided backward compatible
557 parameters for LDAP enabled Samba 2.2 servers. Refer to the passdb
558 backend and authentication section for more details
560 * inclusion of non-standard passdb modules may be enabled using
561 --with-expsam. This includes an XML backend and a mysql backend.
563 * removal of --with-msdfs (is now enabled by default)
565 * removal of --with-ssl (no longer supported)
567 * --with-utmp now defaults to 'yes' on supported systems
569 * --with-sendfile-support is now enabled by default on supported
576 This section contains a brief listing of changes to smb.conf options
577 in the 3.0.0 release. Please refer to the smb.conf(5) man page for
578 complete descriptions of new or modified parameters.
580 Removed Parameters (order alphabetically):
583 * alternate permissions
586 * code page directory
590 * force unknown acl user
595 * printer driver file
596 * printer driver location
604 New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function):
608 * abort shutdown script
611 User and Group Account Management
612 ---------------------------------
615 * add user to group script
616 * algorithmic rid base
617 * delete group script
618 * delete user from group script
620 * set primary group script
626 * passwd chat timeout
637 * paranoid server security
647 * hide unwriteable files
649 * kernel change notify
659 * max reported print jobs
661 UNICODE and Character Sets
662 --------------------------
668 SID to uid/gid Mappings
669 -----------------------
673 * winbind enable local accounts
674 * winbind trusted domains only
675 * template primary group
676 * enable rid algorithm
683 * ldap machine suffix
687 General Configuration
688 ---------------------
692 Modified Parameters (changes in behavior):
694 * encrypt passwords (enabled by default)
695 * mangling method (set to 'hash2' by default)
698 * restrict anonymous (integer value)
699 * security (new 'ads' value)
700 * strict locking (enabled by default)
701 * unix extensions (enabled by default)
702 * winbind cache time (increased to 5 minutes)
703 * winbind uid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap uid')
704 * winbind gid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap gid')
710 This section contains brief descriptions of any new databases
711 introduced in Samba 3.0. Please remember to backup your existing
712 ${lock directory}/*tdb before upgrading to Samba 3.0. Samba will
713 upgrade databases as they are opened (if necessary), but downgrading
714 from 3.0 to 2.2 is an unsupported path.
716 Name Description Backup?
717 ---- ----------- -------
718 account_policy User policy settings yes
719 gencache Generic caching db no
720 group_mapping Mapping table from Windows yes
721 groups/SID to unix groups
722 winbindd_idmap ID map table from SIDS to UNIX yes
724 namecache Name resolution cache entries no
725 netsamlogon_cache Cache of NET_USER_INFO_3 structure no
726 returned as part of a successful
727 net_sam_logon request
728 printing/*.tdb Cached output from 'lpq no
729 command' created on a per print
731 registry Read-only samba registry skeleton no
732 that provides support for exporting
733 various db tables via the winreg RPCs
739 The following issues are known changes in behavior between Samba 2.2 and
740 Samba 3.0 that may affect certain installations of Samba.
742 1) When operating as a member of a Windows domain, Samba 2.2 would
743 map any users authenticated by the remote DC to the 'guest account'
744 if a uid could not be obtained via the getpwnam() call. Samba 3.0
745 rejects the connection as NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE. There is no
746 current work around to re-establish the 2.2 behavior.
748 2) When adding machines to a Samba 2.2 controlled domain, the
749 'add user script' was used to create the UNIX identity of the
750 machine trust account. Samba 3.0 introduces a new 'add machine
751 script' that must be specified for this purpose. Samba 3.0 will
752 not fall back to using the 'add user script' in the absence of
753 an 'add machine script'
756 ######################################################################
757 Passdb Backends and Authentication
758 ##################################
760 There have been a few new changes that Samba administrators should be
761 aware of when moving to Samba 3.0.
763 1) encrypted passwords have been enabled by default in order to
764 inter-operate better with out-of-the-box Windows client
765 installations. This does mean that either (a) a samba account
766 must be created for each user, or (b) 'encrypt passwords = no'
767 must be explicitly defined in smb.conf.
769 2) Inclusion of new 'security = ads' option for integration
770 with an Active Directory domain using the native Windows
771 Kerberos 5 and LDAP protocols.
773 MIT kerberos 1.3.1 supports the ARCFOUR-HMAC-MD5 encryption
774 type which is neccessary for servers on which the
775 administrator password has not been changed, or kerberos-enabled
776 SMB connections to servers that require Kerberos SMB signing.
777 Besides this one difference, either MIT or Heimdal Kerberos
778 distributions are usable by Samba 3.0.
781 Samba 3.0 also includes the possibility of setting up chains
782 of authentication methods (auth methods) and account storage
783 backends (passdb backend). Please refer to the smb.conf(5)
784 man page for details. While both parameters assume sane default
785 values, it is likely that you will need to understand what the
786 values actually mean in order to ensure Samba operates correctly.
788 The recommended passdb backends at this time are
790 * smbpasswd - 2.2 compatible flat file format
791 * tdbsam - attribute rich database intended as an smbpasswd
792 replacement for stand alone servers
793 * ldapsam - attribute rich account storage and retrieval
794 backend utilizing an LDAP directory.
795 * ldapsam_compat - a 2.2 backward compatible LDAP account
798 Certain functions of the smbpasswd(8) tool have been split between the
799 new smbpasswd(8) utility, the net(8) tool, and the new pdbedit(8)
800 utility. See the respective man pages for details.
803 ######################################################################
807 This section outlines the new features affecting Samba / LDAP
813 A new object class (sambaSamAccount) has been introduced to replace
814 the old sambaAccount. This change aids us in the renaming of attributes
815 to prevent clashes with attributes from other vendors. There is a
816 conversion script (examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount) to modify and LDIF
817 file to the new schema.
821 $ ldapsearch .... -b "ou=people,dc=..." > old.ldif
822 $ convertSambaAccount <DOM SID> old.ldif new.ldif
824 The <DOM SID> can be obtained by running 'net getlocalsid <DOMAINNAME>'
825 on the Samba PDC as root.
827 The old sambaAccount schema may still be used by specifying the
828 "ldapsam_compat" passdb backend. However, the sambaAccount and
829 associated attributes have been moved to the historical section of
830 the schema file and must be uncommented before use if needed.
831 The 2.2 object class declaration for a sambaAccount has not changed
832 in the 3.0 samba.schema file.
834 Other new object classes and their uses include:
836 * sambaDomain - domain information used to allocate rids
837 for users and groups as necessary. The attributes are added
838 in 'ldap suffix' directory entry automatically if
839 an idmap uid/gid range has been set and the 'ldapsam'
840 passdb backend has been selected.
842 * sambaGroupMapping - an object representing the
843 relationship between a posixGroup and a Windows
844 group/SID. These entries are stored in the 'ldap
845 group suffix' and managed by the 'net groupmap' command.
847 * sambaUnixIdPool - created in the 'ldap idmap suffix' entry
848 automatically and contains the next available 'idmap uid' and
851 * sambaIdmapEntry - object storing a mapping between a
852 SID and a UNIX uid/gid. These objects are created by the
853 idmap_ldap module as needed.
855 * sambaSidEntry - object representing a SID alone, as a Structural
856 class on which to build the sambaIdmapEntry.
859 New Suffix for Searching
860 ------------------------
862 The following new smb.conf parameters have been added to aid in directing
863 certain LDAP queries when 'passdb backend = ldapsam://...' has been
866 * ldap suffix - used to search for user and computer accounts
867 * ldap user suffix - used to store user accounts
868 * ldap machine suffix - used to store machine trust accounts
869 * ldap group suffix - location of posixGroup/sambaGroupMapping entries
870 * ldap idmap suffix - location of sambaIdmapEntry objects
872 If an 'ldap suffix' is defined, it will be appended to all of the
873 remaining sub-suffix parameters. In this case, the order of the suffix
874 listings in smb.conf is important. Always place the 'ldap suffix' first
877 Due to a limitation in Samba's smb.conf parsing, you should not surround
878 the DN's with quotation marks.
884 Samba 3.0 supports an ldap backend for the idmap subsystem. The
885 following options would inform Samba that the idmap table should be
886 stored on the directory server onterose in the "ou=idmap,dc=plainjoe,
891 idmap backend = ldap:ldap://onterose/
892 ldap idmap suffix = ou=idmap,dc=plainjoe,dc=org
893 idmap uid = 40000-50000
894 idmap gid = 40000-50000
896 This configuration allows winbind installations on multiple servers to
897 share a uid/gid number space, thus avoiding the interoperability problems
898 with NFS that were present in Samba 2.2.
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903 Trust Relationships and a Samba Domain
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906 Samba 3.0.0beta2 is able to utilize winbindd as the means of
907 allocating uids and gids to trusted users and groups. More
908 information regarding Samba's support for establishing trust
909 relationships can be found in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection included
910 in the docs/ directory of this release.
912 First create your Samba PDC and ensure that everything is
913 working correctly before moving on the trusts.
915 To establish Samba as the trusting domain (named SAMBA) from a Windows NT
916 4.0 domain named WINDOWS:
918 1) create the trust account for SAMBA in "User Manager for Domains"
919 2) connect the trust from the Samba domain using
920 'net rpc trustdom establish GLASS'
922 To create a trustlationship with SAMBA as the trusted domain:
924 1) create the initial trust account for GLASS using
925 'smbpasswd -a -i GLASS'. You may need to create a UNIX
926 account for GLASS$ prior to this step (depending on your
927 local configuration).
928 2) connect the trust from a WINDOWS DC using "User Manager
931 Now join winbindd on the Samba PDC to the SAMBA domain using
932 the normal steps for adding a Samba server to an NT4 domain:
933 (note that smbd & nmbd must be running at this point)
935 root# net rpc join -U root
936 Password: <enter root password from smbpasswd file here>
938 Start winbindd and test the join with 'wbinfo -t'.
940 Now test the trust relationship by connecting to the SAMBA DC
941 (e.g. POGO) as a user from the WINDOWS domain:
943 $ smbclient //pogo/netlogon -U Administrator -W WINDOWS
946 Now connect to the WINDOWS DC (e.g. CRYSTAL) as a Samba user:
948 $ smbclient //crystal/netlogon -U root -W WINDOWS
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955 Beginning with Samba3.0.0beta3, winbindd has been given new account
956 manage functionality equivalent to the 'add user script' family of
957 smb.conf parameters. The idmap design has also been changed to
958 centralize control of foreign SID lookups and matching to UNIX
962 Brief Description of Changes
963 ----------------------------
965 1) The sid_to_uid() family of functions (smbd/uid.c) have been
966 reverted to the 2.2.x design. This means that when resolving a
967 SID to a UID or similar mapping:
969 a) First consult winbindd
970 b) perform a local lookup only if winbindd fails to
971 return a successful answer
973 There are some variations to this, but these two rules generally
976 2) All idmap lookups have been moved into winbindd. This means that
977 a server must run winbindd (and support NSS) in order to achieve
978 any mappings of SID to dynamically allocated UNIX ids. This was
979 a conscious design choice.
981 3) New functions have been added to winbindd to emulate the 'add user
982 script' family of smbd functions without requiring that external
983 scripts be defined. This functionality is controlled by the 'winbind
984 enable local accounts' smb.conf parameter (enabled by default).
986 However, this account management functionality is only supported
987 in a local tdb (winbindd_idmap.tdb). If these new UNIX accounts
988 must be shared among multiple Samba servers (such as a PDC and BDCs),
989 it will be necessary to define your own 'add user script', et. al.
990 programs that place the accounts/groups in some form of directory
991 such as NIS or LDAP. This requirement was deemed beyond the scope
992 of winbind's account management functions. Solutions for
993 distributing UNIX system information have been deployed and tested
994 for many years. We saw no need to reinvent the wheel.
996 4) A member of a Samba controlled domain running winbindd is now able
997 to map domain users directly onto existing UNIX accounts while still
998 automatically creating accounts for trusted users and groups. This
999 behavior is controlled by the 'winbind trusted domains only' smb.conf
1000 parameter (disabled by default to provide 2.2.x winbind behavior).
1002 5) Group mapping support is wrapped in the local_XX_to_XX() functions
1003 in smbd/uid.c. The reason that group mappings are not included
1004 in winbindd is because the purpose of Samba's group map is to
1005 match any Windows SID with an existing UNIX group. These UNIX
1006 groups can be created by winbindd (see next section), but the
1007 SID<->gid mapping is retreived by smbd, not winbindd.
1013 * security = server running winbindd to allocate accounts on demand
1015 * Samba PDC running winbindd to handle the automatic creation of UNIX
1016 identities for machine trust accounts
1018 * Automtically creating UNIX user and groups when migrating a Windows NT
1019 4.0 PDC to a Samba PDC. Winbindd must be running when executing
1020 'net rpc vampire' for this to work.
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1027 * There are several bugs currently logged against the 3.0 codebase
1028 that affect the use of NT 4.0 GUI domain management tools when run
1029 against a Samba 3.0 PDC. This bugs should be released in an early
1032 Please refer to https://bugzilla.samba.org/ for a current list of bugs
1033 filed against the Samba 3.0 codebase.
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1037 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
1038 #######################################
1040 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
1041 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
1043 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
1044 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
1045 the problem then you will probably be ignored.
1047 A new bugzilla installation has been established to help support the
1048 Samba 3.0 community of users. This server, located at
1049 https://bugzilla.samba.org/, has replaced the older jitterbug server
1050 previously located at http://bugs.samba.org/.