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2 Release Notes for Samba 3.3.0pre2
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6 This is the second preview release of Samba 3.3.0. This is *not*
7 intended for production environments and is designed for testing
8 purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
9 system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
11 Major enhancements in Samba 3.3.0 include:
13 Configuration/installation:
14 o Splitting of library directory into library directory and separate
18 o Extended Cluster support.
21 o Simplyfied idmap configuration.
22 o New idmap backend "adex".
23 o Added new parameter "winbind reconnect delay".
24 o Added support for user and group aliasing.
27 o The destination "all" of smbcontrol does now affect all running
28 daemons including nmbd and winbindd.
29 o New 'net rpc vampire keytab' and 'net rpc vampire ldif' commands.
30 o The 'net' utility can now use kerberos for joining and authentication.
33 o NetApi library implements various new calls for User- and Group
40 The configure option "--with-libdir" has been removed. The library
41 directory can still be specified by using the existing "--libdir" option.
42 A new option "--with-modulesdir" has been added to allow the specification
43 of a separate directory for the shared modules.
46 Winbind idmap backend changes
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49 The idmap configuration has changed with version 3.3 to something that
50 allows a smoother upgrade path from pre-3.0.25 configurations that use
51 "idmap backend". The reason for this change is that to many, also to Samba
52 developers, the 3.0.25 style configuration with "idmap config" turned out
53 to be very complex. Version 3.3 no longer deprecates the "idmap backend"
54 parameter, instead with "idmap backend" the default idmap backend is
57 Accordingly, the "idmap config <domain> : default = yes" setting is no
58 longer being looked at.
60 The alloc backend defaults to the default backend, which should be able to
61 allocate IDs. In the default distribution the tdb and ldap backends can
62 allocate, the ad and rid backends can not. The idmap alloc range is now
63 being set with the "old" parameters "idmap uid" and "idmap gid".
65 The "idmap domains" parameter has been removed.
68 winbind reconnect delay
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71 This is a new parameter which specifies the number of seconds the Winbind
72 daemon will wait between attempts to contact a Domain controller for a domain
73 that is determined to be down or not contactable.
79 The adex idmap/nss_info plugin is an adapation of the Likewise
80 Enterprise plugin with support for OU based cells removed
81 (since the Windows pieces to manage the cells are not available).
85 * The RFC2307 schema for users and groups.
86 * Connections to trusted domains
87 * Global catalog searches
89 * User and group aliases
91 Prerequiste: Add the following attributes to the Partial Attribute
92 Set in global catalog:
98 A basic config using the current trunk code would look like:
102 idmap uid = 10000 - 29999
103 idmap gid = 10000 - 29999
104 winbind nss info = adex
106 winbind normalize names = yes
107 winbind refresh tickets = yes
108 template homedir = /home/%D/%U
109 template shell = /bin/bash
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119 Parameter Name Description Default
120 -------------- ----------- -------
121 cups connection timeout New 30
122 idmap domains Removed
123 init logon delayed hosts New ""
124 init logon delay New 100
125 winbind reconnect delay New 30
128 Changes since 3.3.0pre1:
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132 o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
134 * BUG 5492: Fix RHEL SPEC file by removing libmsrpc stuff.
135 * BUG 5507: Fix several issues in the RHEL SPEC file.
137 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
138 * BUG 5729: Explicitly allow "-valid".
139 * BUG 5737: Fix winbindd crash in an unusual failure mode.
140 * BUG 5751: Fix showing of ACLs on DFS in (lib)smbclient.
141 * BUG 5762: Fix opening of mangled directory name (resulted
143 * BUG 5783: Fix FindFirst where search pattern == mangled filename.
144 * BUG 5790: Fix returning of STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND on set file
146 * Fix crashes when looking up a non-existant uid.
147 * Fix getting/setting of NT ACLs on a file.
148 * Add st_birthtime and friends for accurate create times on *BSD
150 * Fix the wcache_invalidate_samlogon calls.
151 * Clarify usage of "force create mode".
152 * Get smbd to look (read-only) into the winbindd cache for uid/gid <--> sid
154 * Write times code update.
155 * Add experimental version of VFS module acl_xattr.
158 o Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>
159 * Fix segfault when calling nss_get_info() with a NULL ads structure.
160 * Add support for name aliasing in Winbind.
161 * Add the idmap/nss-info provider from Likewise Open.
162 * Allow an admin to define the "uid" attribute for a RFC2307
163 user object in AD to be the username alias.
164 * Add new idmap backend "adex" to support RFC2307 enabled AD forests.
167 o Steven Danneman <steven.danneman@isilon.com>
168 * Fix build warnings.
169 * Cleanup of DC enumeration in get_dcs().
172 o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
173 * BUG 5710: Fix changing of machine account passwords.
174 * BUG 5784: Fix pam_winbind build issue on Solaris.
175 * Fix invalid sid copy (hit when enumerating sibling domains) in Winbind.
176 * Fix double installation of cifs.upcall.
179 o James Ding <ding_cc@hotmail.com>
180 * BUG 5736: Fix Winbind crash bug with trusted domains.
183 o Ephi Dror <Ephi.Dror@datadomain.com>
184 * Correct the netsamlogon_clear_cached_user function.
187 o Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
188 * Fix build warnings in cifs.upcall.
191 o Volker Lendecke <vl@sernet.de>
192 * BUG 5707: Do proper error handling if the socket is closed.
193 * BUG 5778: Don't define 'strlcat' and 'strlcpy' if it's already defined.
194 * Fix Coverity IDs 587 and 589.
195 * Increase the default positive idmap cache time to a week.
196 * Fix calculation of useable_space for trans2 and nttrans replies.
197 * Add mapping of generic bits when setting an NFSv4 ACL.
200 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
201 * Some write time fixes.
204 o Karolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>
205 * Add new parameter "cups connection timeout".
208 o Simo Sorce <idra@samba.org>
209 * Fix enumeration of nested group memberships in Winbind.
210 This affected only setups using "security = ads".
213 o Timur <timur@FreeBSD.org>
214 * Fix cut and paste error in quota code.
215 * Fix display of POSIX ACLs.
216 * Fix aio on FreeBSD.
219 o Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
220 * Fix permissions of group_mapping.ldb (CVE-2008-3789).
221 * Avoid a race condition in glibc between AIO and setresuid().
222 * Add missing become root for AIO operations.
223 * Fix an errno handling bug that could lead to an infinite loop.
224 * Fix logic of tsmsm_sendfile().
225 * Fix handling of arbitrary new PAC types.
228 o Qiao Yang <geoyang@ironport.com>
235 o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
236 * BUG 5609: Remove configure option "--with-libdir" and add
238 * Extend "net rpc vampire keytab" to support differential replication
239 and storing of kerberos keys.
240 * Rework internal logic of registry tdb code.
241 * Freeze autogenerated prototype headers (good bye "make proto").
244 o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
245 * Add new "winbind reconnect delay" parameter.
246 * Make the change to smbcontrol for "all" to mean broadcast,
247 and "smbd" to mean the main smb daemon.
250 o Gerald W. Carter <jerry@samba.org>
251 * Add support for name aliasing in Winbind.
252 * Add the idmap/nss-info provider from Likewise Open.
253 * Allow an admin to define the "uid" attribute for a RFC2307
254 user object in AD to be the username alias.
255 * Add new idmap backend "adex" to support RFC2307 enabled AD forests.
258 o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
259 * BUG 5710: Fix changing of machine account passwords.
260 * Add "net rpc vampire keytab" and "net rpc vampire ldif".
263 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
264 * Rework of the Winbind idmap backend.
265 * Fix calculation of useable_space for trans2 and nttrans replies.
266 * Add mapping of generic bits when setting an NFSv4 ACL.
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270 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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273 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
274 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
276 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
277 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
278 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
279 be filed under the Samba 3.3 product in the project's Bugzilla
280 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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