1 WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.1pre3
3 ==============================
5 This is a preview release of the Samba 3.0.1 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 3.0.0 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
15 ######################################################################
18 Changes since 3.0.1pre2
19 -----------------------
21 Please refer to the CVS log for the SAMBA_3_0 branch for complete
24 1) Skip over the winbind separator when looking up a user.
25 This fixes the bug that prevented local users from
26 matching an AD user when not running winbindd (bug 698).
27 2) Fix a problem with configure on *BSD systems. Make sure
28 we add -liconv etc to LDFLAGS.
29 3) Fix core dump bug when "security = server" and the authentication
31 4) Correct crash bug due to an empty munged dial string.
32 5) Show files locked by a specific user (smbstatus -u 'user')
34 6) Fix bug preventing print jobs from display in the queue
35 monitor used by Windows NT and later clients (bug 660).
36 7) Fix several reported problems with point-n-print from
37 Windows 2000/XP clients due to a bug in the EnumPrinterDataEx()
38 reply (bug 338, 527 & 643).
39 8) Fix a handful of potential memory leaks in the LDAP code used
40 by ldapsam[_compat] and the LDAP idmap backend.
43 Changes since 3.0.1pre1
44 -----------------------
46 1) Match Samba 2.2 behavior; make ACB_NORMAL the default ACB value.
47 2) Updated Japanese welcome file in SWAT.
48 3) Fix to nt-time <-> unix-time functions reversible.
49 4) Ensure that winbindd uses the the escaped DN when querying
51 5) Fix portability issues when compiling (bug 505, 550)
52 6) Compile fix for tdbbackup when Samba needs to override
53 non-C99 compliant implementations of snprintf().
54 7) Use @PICSUFFIX@ instead of .po in Makefile.in (bug 574).
55 8) Make sure we break out of samsync loop on error.
56 9) Ensure error code path doesn't free unmalloc()'d memory
58 10) Add configure test for krb5_keytab_entry keyblock vs key
61 12) Modified testparm so that all output so all debug output goes
62 to stderr, and all file processing goes to stdout.
63 13) Fix error return code for BUFFER_TOO_SMALL in smbcacls
65 14) Fix "NULL dest in safe_strcpy()" log message by ensuring that
66 we have a devmode before copying a string to the devicename.
67 15) Support mapping REALM.COM\user to a local user account (without
68 running winbindd) for compatibility with 2.2.x release.
69 16) Ensure we don't use mmap() on blacklisted systems.
70 17) fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks in the AIX
72 18) Call initgroups() in SWAT before becomming the user so that
73 secondary group permissions can be used when writing to
75 19) Fix signing problems when reverse connecting back to a
76 client for printer notify
77 20) Fix signing problems caused by a miss-sequence bug.
78 21) Missing map in errormap for ERROR_MORE_DATA -> ERRDOS, ERRmoredata.
79 Fixes NEXUS tools running on Win9x clients (bug 64).
80 22) Don't leave the domain field uninitialized in cli_lsa.c if some
81 SID could not be mapped.
82 23) Fix segfault in mount.cifs helper when there is no options
83 specified during mount.
84 24) Change the \n after the password prompt to go to tty instead
86 25) Stop net -P from prompting for machine account password (bug 451).
87 26) Change in behavior to Not only change the effective uid but also
88 the real uid when becoming unprivileged.
89 27) Cope with Exchange 5.5 cleartext pop password auth.
90 28) New files for support of initshutdown pipe. Win2k doesn't
91 respond properly to all requests on the winreg pipe, so we need
92 to handle this new pipe (bug 534).
93 29) Added more va_copy() checks in configure.in.
94 30) Include fixes for libsmbclient build problems.
95 31) Missing UNIX -> DOS codepage conversion in lanman.c.
96 32) Allow DFMS-S filenames can now have arbitrary case (bug 667).
97 33) Parameterize the listen backlog in smbd and make it larger by
98 default. A backlog of 5 is way too small these days.
99 34) Check for an invalid fid before dereferencing the fsp pointer
101 35) Remove invalid memory frees and return codes in pdb_ldap.c.
102 36) Prompt for password when invoking --set-auth-user and no
104 37) Bind the nmbd sending socket to the 'socket address'.
105 38) Re-order link command for smbd, rpcclient and smbpasswd to ensure
106 $LDFLAGS occurs before any library specification (bug 661).
107 39) Fix large number of printf() calls for 64-bit size_t.
108 40) Fix AC_CHECK_MEMBER so that SLES8 does correctly finds the
109 keyblock in the krb5 structs.
110 41) Remove #include <compat.h> in hopes to avoid problems with
112 42) COrrect winbindd build problems on HP-UX 11
113 43) Lowercase netgroups lookups (bug 703).
114 44) Use the actual size of the buffer in strftime instead of a made
115 up value which just happens to be less than sizeof(fstring).
117 45) Add ldaplibs to pdbedit link line (bug 651).
118 46) Fix crash bug in smbclient completion (bug 659).
119 47) Fix packet length for browse list reply (bug 771).
120 48) Fix coredump in cli_get_backup_list().
121 49) Make sure that we expand %N (bug 612).
122 50) Allow rpcclient adddriver command to specify printer driver
124 51) Compile tdbdump by default.
125 52) Apply patches to fix iconv detection for FreeBSD.
126 53) Do not allow the 'guest account' to be added to a passdb backend
127 using smbpasswd or pdbedit (bug 624).
128 54) Save LDFLAGS during iconv detection (bug 57).
129 55) Run krb5 logins through the username map if the winbindd
130 lookup fails (bug 698).
131 56) Add const for lp_set_name_resolve_order() to avoid compiler
133 57) Add support for the %i macro in smb.conf to stand in for the for
134 the local IP address to which a client connected.
135 58) Allow winbindd to match local accounts to domain SID when
136 'winbind trusted domains only = yes' (bug 680).
137 59) Remove code in idmap_ldap that searches the user suffix and group
138 suffix. It's not needed and provides inconsistent functionality
139 from the tdb backend.
140 60) Patch to handle munged dial string for Windows 200 TSE.
141 61) Correct the "smbldap_open: cannot access when not root error"
142 messages when looking up group information (bug 281).
150 * mangled map (deprecated)
153 * mangled stack (unused)
156 1) Change the interface for init_unistr2 to not take a length
157 but a flags field. We were assuming that
158 2*strlen(mb_string) == length of ucs2-le string. (bug 480).
159 2) Allow d_printf() to handle strings with escaped quotation
160 marks since the msg file includes the escape character (bug 489).
161 3) Fix bad html table row termination in SWAT wizard code (bug 413).
162 4) Fix to parse the level-2 strings.
163 5) Fix for "valid users = %S" in [homes]. Fix read/write
165 6) Change AC_CHECK_LIB_EXT to prepend libraries instead of append.
166 This is the same way AC_CHECK_LIB works (bug 508).
167 7) Testparm output fixes for clarity.
168 8) Fix broken wins hook functionality -- i18n bug (bug 528).
169 9) Take care of condition where DOS and NT error codes must differ.
170 10) Default to using only built-in charsets when a working iconv
171 implementation cannot be located.
172 11) Wrap internals of sys_setgroups() so the sys_XX() call can
173 be done unconditionally (bug 550).
174 12) Remove duplicate smbspool link on SWAT's front page (bug 541).
175 13) Save and restore CFLAGS before/after AC_PROG_CC. Ensures that
176 --enable-debug=[yes|no] works correctly.
177 14) Allow ^C to interrupt smbpasswd if using our getpass
178 (e.g. smbpasswd command).
179 15) Support signing only on RPC's (bug 167).
180 16) Correct bug that prevented Excel 2000 clients from opening
181 files marked as read-only.
182 17) Portability fix bugs 546 - 549).
183 18) Explicitly initialize the value of AR for vendor makes that don't
184 do this (e.g. HPUX 11). (bug 552).
185 19) More i18n fixes for SWAT (bug 413).
186 20) Change the cwd before the postexec script to ensure that a
188 21) Correct double free that caused winbindd to crash when a DC
189 is rebooted (bug 437).
190 22) Fix incorrect mode sum (bug 562).
191 23) Canonicalize SMB_INFO_ALLOCATION in the same was as
192 SMB_FS_FULL_SIZE_INFORMATION (bug 564).
193 24) Add script to generate *msg files.
194 25) Add Dutch SWAT translation file.
195 26) Make sure to call get_user_groups() with the full winbindd
196 name for a user if he/she has one (bug 406).
197 27) Fix up error code returns from Samba4 tester. Ensure invalid
198 paths are validated the same way.
199 28) Allow Samba3 to pass the Samba4 RAW-READ tests.
200 29) Refuse to configure if --with-expsam=$BACKEND was used but no
201 libraries were found for $BACKEND.
202 30) Move sysquotas autoconf tests to a separate file.
203 31) Match W2K w.r.t. writelock and writeclose. Samba4 torture
205 32) Make sure that the files that contain the static_init_$subsystem;
206 macro get recompiled after configure by removing the object
208 33) Ensure canceling a blocking lock returns the correct error
210 34) Match Samba 2.2, and make ACB_NORMAL the default ACB value.
214 ######################################################################
216 =======================================
217 The original 3.0.0 release notes follow
218 =======================================
224 1) Active Directory support. Samba 3.0 is now able to
225 join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate
226 users using LDAP/Kerberos.
228 2) Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire
229 and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for
230 multi-byte and UNICODE character sets.
232 3) New authentication system. The internal authentication system
233 has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are
234 internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable.
236 4) New default filename mangling system.
238 5) A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to
239 the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace
240 numerous other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands
243 6) Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
244 improves error handling a lot.
246 7) Better Windows 2000/XP/2003 printing support including publishing
247 printer attributes in active directory.
249 8) New loadable module support for passdb backends and character
252 9) New default dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance.
254 10) Support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain to a Samba
255 domain and maintaining user, group and domain SIDs.
257 11) Support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0
260 12) Initial support for a distributed Winbind architecture using
261 an LDAP directory for storing SID to uid/gid mappings.
263 13) Major updates to the Samba documentation tree.
265 14) Full support for client and server SMB signing to ensure
266 compatibility with default Windows 2003 security settings.
268 15) Improvement of ACL mapping features based on code donated by
272 Plus lots of other improvements!
275 Additional Documentation
276 ------------------------
278 Please refer to Samba documentation tree (included in the docs/
279 subdirectory) for extensive explanations of installing, configuring
280 and maintaining Samba 3.0 servers and clients. It is advised to
281 begin with the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for overviews and specific
282 tasks (the current book is up to approximately 400 pages) and to
283 refer to the various man pages for information on individual options.
285 We are very glad to be able to include the second edition of
286 "Using Samba" by Jay Ts, Robert Eckstein, and David Collier-Brown
287 (O'Reilly & Associates) in this release. The book is available
288 on-line at http://samba.org/samba/docs/ and is included with
289 the Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT). Thanks to the authors and
290 publisher for making "Using Samba" under the GNU Free Documentation
294 ######################################################################
295 Upgrading from a previous Samba 3.0 beta
296 ########################################
298 Beginning with Samba 3.0.0beta3, the RID allocation functions
299 have been moved into winbindd. Previously these were handled
300 by each passdb backend. This means that winbindd must be running
301 to automatically allocate RIDs for users and/or groups. Otherwise,
302 smbd will use the 2.2 algorithm for generating new RIDs.
304 If you are using 'passdb backend = tdbsam' with a previous Samba
305 3.0 beta release (or possibly alpha), it may be necessary to
306 move the RID_COUNTER entry from /usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb
307 to winbindd_idmap.tdb. To do this:
309 1) Ensure that winbindd_idmap.tdb exists (launch winbindd at least
311 2) build tdbtool by executing 'make tdbtool' in the source/tdb/
313 3) run: (note that 'tdb>' is the tool's prompt for input)
315 root# ./tdbtool /usr/local/samba/private/passdb.tdb
316 tdb> show RID_COUNTER
320 [000] 0A 52 00 00 .R.
322 tdb> move RID_COUNTER /usr/local/samba/var/locks/winbindd_idmap.tdb
326 If you are using 'passdb backend = ldapsam', it will be necessary to
327 store idmap entries in the LDAP directory as well (i.e. idmap backend
328 = ldap). Refer to the 'net idmap' command for more information on
329 migrating SID<->UNIX id mappings from one backend to another.
331 If the RID_COUNTER record does not exist, then these instructions are
332 unneccessary and the new RID_COUNTER record will be correctly generated
337 ########################
338 Upgrading from Samba 2.2
339 ########################
341 This section is provided to help administrators understand the details
342 involved with upgrading a Samba 2.2 server to Samba 3.0.
348 Many of the options to the GNU autoconf script have been modified
349 in the 3.0 release. The most noticeable are:
351 * removal of --with-tdbsam (is now included by default; see section
352 on passdb backends and authentication for more details)
354 * --with-ldapsam is now on used to provided backward compatible
355 parameters for LDAP enabled Samba 2.2 servers. Refer to the passdb
356 backend and authentication section for more details
358 * inclusion of non-standard passdb modules may be enabled using
359 --with-expsam. This includes an XML backend and a mysql backend.
361 * removal of --with-msdfs (is now enabled by default)
363 * removal of --with-ssl (no longer supported)
365 * --with-utmp now defaults to 'yes' on supported systems
367 * --with-sendfile-support is now enabled by default on supported
374 This section contains a brief listing of changes to smb.conf options
375 in the 3.0.0 release. Please refer to the smb.conf(5) man page for
376 complete descriptions of new or modified parameters.
378 Removed Parameters (order alphabetically):
381 * alternate permissions
384 * code page directory
388 * force unknown acl user
392 * printer driver file
393 * printer driver location
401 New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function):
405 * abort shutdown script
408 User and Group Account Management
409 ---------------------------------
412 * add user to group script
413 * algorithmic rid base
414 * delete group script
415 * delete user from group script
417 * set primary group script
433 * paranoid server security
443 * hide unwriteable files
445 * kernel change notify
455 * max reported print jobs
457 UNICODE and Character Sets
458 --------------------------
464 SID to uid/gid Mappings
465 -----------------------
469 * winbind enable local accounts
470 * winbind trusted domains only
471 * template primary group
472 * enable rid algorithm
479 * ldap machine suffix
483 General Configuration
484 ---------------------
488 Modified Parameters (changes in behavior):
490 * encrypt passwords (enabled by default)
491 * mangling method (set to 'hash2' by default)
494 * restrict anonymous (integer value)
495 * security (new 'ads' value)
496 * strict locking (enabled by default)
497 * unix extensions (enabled by default)
498 * winbind cache time (increased to 5 minutes)
499 * winbind uid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap uid')
500 * winbind gid (deprecated in favor of 'idmap gid')
506 This section contains brief descriptions of any new databases
507 introduced in Samba 3.0. Please remember to backup your existing
508 ${lock directory}/*tdb before upgrading to Samba 3.0. Samba will
509 upgrade databases as they are opened (if necessary), but downgrading
510 from 3.0 to 2.2 is an unsupported path.
512 Name Description Backup?
513 ---- ----------- -------
514 account_policy User policy settings yes
515 gencache Generic caching db no
516 group_mapping Mapping table from Windows yes
517 groups/SID to unix groups
518 winbindd_idmap ID map table from SIDS to UNIX yes
520 namecache Name resolution cache entries no
521 netsamlogon_cache Cache of NET_USER_INFO_3 structure no
522 returned as part of a successful
523 net_sam_logon request
524 printing/*.tdb Cached output from 'lpq no
525 command' created on a per print
527 registry Read-only samba registry skeleton no
528 that provides support for exporting
529 various db tables via the winreg RPCs
535 The following issues are known changes in behavior between Samba 2.2 and
536 Samba 3.0 that may affect certain installations of Samba.
538 1) When operating as a member of a Windows domain, Samba 2.2 would
539 map any users authenticated by the remote DC to the 'guest account'
540 if a uid could not be obtained via the getpwnam() call. Samba 3.0
541 rejects the connection as NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE. There is no
542 current work around to re-establish the 2.2 behavior.
544 2) When adding machines to a Samba 2.2 controlled domain, the
545 'add user script' was used to create the UNIX identity of the
546 machine trust account. Samba 3.0 introduces a new 'add machine
547 script' that must be specified for this purpose. Samba 3.0 will
548 not fall back to using the 'add user script' in the absence of
549 an 'add machine script'
552 ######################################################################
553 Passdb Backends and Authentication
554 ##################################
556 There have been a few new changes that Samba administrators should be
557 aware of when moving to Samba 3.0.
559 1) encrypted passwords have been enabled by default in order to
560 inter-operate better with out-of-the-box Windows client
561 installations. This does mean that either (a) a samba account
562 must be created for each user, or (b) 'encrypt passwords = no'
563 must be explicitly defined in smb.conf.
565 2) Inclusion of new 'security = ads' option for integration
566 with an Active Directory domain using the native Windows
567 Kerberos 5 and LDAP protocols.
569 MIT kerberos 1.3.1 supports the ARCFOUR-HMAC-MD5 encryption
570 type which is neccessary for servers on which the
571 administrator password has not been changed, or kerberos-enabled
572 SMB connections to servers that require Kerberos SMB signing.
573 Besides this one difference, either MIT or Heimdal Kerberos
574 distributions are usable by Samba 3.0.
577 Samba 3.0 also includes the possibility of setting up chains
578 of authentication methods (auth methods) and account storage
579 backends (passdb backend). Please refer to the smb.conf(5)
580 man page for details. While both parameters assume sane default
581 values, it is likely that you will need to understand what the
582 values actually mean in order to ensure Samba operates correctly.
584 The recommended passdb backends at this time are
586 * smbpasswd - 2.2 compatible flat file format
587 * tdbsam - attribute rich database intended as an smbpasswd
588 replacement for stand alone servers
589 * ldapsam - attribute rich account storage and retrieval
590 backend utilizing an LDAP directory.
591 * ldapsam_compat - a 2.2 backward compatible LDAP account
594 Certain functions of the smbpasswd(8) tool have been split between the
595 new smbpasswd(8) utility, the net(8) tool, and the new pdbedit(8)
596 utility. See the respective man pages for details.
599 ######################################################################
603 This section outlines the new features affecting Samba / LDAP
609 A new object class (sambaSamAccount) has been introduced to replace
610 the old sambaAccount. This change aids us in the renaming of attributes
611 to prevent clashes with attributes from other vendors. There is a
612 conversion script (examples/LDAP/convertSambaAccount) to modify and LDIF
613 file to the new schema.
617 $ ldapsearch .... -b "ou=people,dc=..." > old.ldif
618 $ convertSambaAccount <DOM SID> old.ldif new.ldif
620 The <DOM SID> can be obtained by running 'net getlocalsid <DOMAINNAME>'
621 on the Samba PDC as root.
623 The old sambaAccount schema may still be used by specifying the
624 "ldapsam_compat" passdb backend. However, the sambaAccount and
625 associated attributes have been moved to the historical section of
626 the schema file and must be uncommented before use if needed.
627 The 2.2 object class declaration for a sambaAccount has not changed
628 in the 3.0 samba.schema file.
630 Other new object classes and their uses include:
632 * sambaDomain - domain information used to allocate rids
633 for users and groups as necessary. The attributes are added
634 in 'ldap suffix' directory entry automatically if
635 an idmap uid/gid range has been set and the 'ldapsam'
636 passdb backend has been selected.
638 * sambaGroupMapping - an object representing the
639 relationship between a posixGroup and a Windows
640 group/SID. These entries are stored in the 'ldap
641 group suffix' and managed by the 'net groupmap' command.
643 * sambaUnixIdPool - created in the 'ldap idmap suffix' entry
644 automatically and contains the next available 'idmap uid' and
647 * sambaIdmapEntry - object storing a mapping between a
648 SID and a UNIX uid/gid. These objects are created by the
649 idmap_ldap module as needed.
651 * sambaSidEntry - object representing a SID alone, as a Structural
652 class on which to build the sambaIdmapEntry.
655 New Suffix for Searching
656 ------------------------
658 The following new smb.conf parameters have been added to aid in directing
659 certain LDAP queries when 'passdb backend = ldapsam://...' has been
662 * ldap suffix - used to search for user and computer accounts
663 * ldap user suffix - used to store user accounts
664 * ldap machine suffix - used to store machine trust accounts
665 * ldap group suffix - location of posixGroup/sambaGroupMapping entries
666 * ldap idmap suffix - location of sambaIdmapEntry objects
668 If an 'ldap suffix' is defined, it will be appended to all of the
669 remaining sub-suffix parameters. In this case, the order of the suffix
670 listings in smb.conf is important. Always place the 'ldap suffix' first
673 Due to a limitation in Samba's smb.conf parsing, you should not surround
674 the DN's with quotation marks.
680 Samba 3.0 supports an ldap backend for the idmap subsystem. The
681 following options would inform Samba that the idmap table should be
682 stored on the directory server onterose in the "ou=idmap,dc=plainjoe,
687 idmap backend = ldap:ldap://onterose/
688 ldap idmap suffix = ou=idmap,dc=plainjoe,dc=org
689 idmap uid = 40000-50000
690 idmap gid = 40000-50000
692 This configuration allows winbind installations on multiple servers to
693 share a uid/gid number space, thus avoiding the interoperability problems
694 with NFS that were present in Samba 2.2.
698 ######################################################################
699 Trust Relationships and a Samba Domain
700 ######################################
702 Samba 3.0.0beta2 is able to utilize winbindd as the means of
703 allocating uids and gids to trusted users and groups. More
704 information regarding Samba's support for establishing trust
705 relationships can be found in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection included
706 in the docs/ directory of this release.
708 First create your Samba PDC and ensure that everything is
709 working correctly before moving on the trusts.
711 To establish Samba as the trusting domain (named SAMBA) from a Windows NT
712 4.0 domain named WINDOWS:
714 1) create the trust account for SAMBA in "User Manager for Domains"
715 2) connect the trust from the Samba domain using
716 'net rpc trustdom establish GLASS'
718 To create a trustlationship with SAMBA as the trusted domain:
720 1) create the initial trust account for GLASS using
721 'smbpasswd -a -i GLASS'. You may need to create a UNIX
722 account for GLASS$ prior to this step (depending on your
723 local configuration).
724 2) connect the trust from a WINDOWS DC using "User Manager
727 Now join winbindd on the Samba PDC to the SAMBA domain using
728 the normal steps for adding a Samba server to an NT4 domain:
729 (note that smbd & nmbd must be running at this point)
731 root# net rpc join -U root
732 Password: <enter root password from smbpasswd file here>
734 Start winbindd and test the join with 'wbinfo -t'.
736 Now test the trust relationship by connecting to the SAMBA DC
737 (e.g. POGO) as a user from the WINDOWS domain:
739 $ smbclient //pogo/netlogon -U Administrator -W WINDOWS
742 Now connect to the WINDOWS DC (e.g. CRYSTAL) as a Samba user:
744 $ smbclient //crystal/netlogon -U root -W WINDOWS
747 ######################################################################
751 Beginning with Samba3.0.0beta3, winbindd has been given new account
752 manage functionality equivalent to the 'add user script' family of
753 smb.conf parameters. The idmap design has also been changed to
754 centralize control of foreign SID lookups and matching to UNIX
758 Brief Description of Changes
759 ----------------------------
761 1) The sid_to_uid() family of functions (smbd/uid.c) have been
762 reverted to the 2.2.x design. This means that when resolving a
763 SID to a UID or similar mapping:
765 a) First consult winbindd
766 b) perform a local lookup only if winbindd fails to
767 return a successful answer
769 There are some variations to this, but these two rules generally
772 2) All idmap lookups have been moved into winbindd. This means that
773 a server must run winbindd (and support NSS) in order to achieve
774 any mappings of SID to dynamically allocated UNIX ids. This was
775 a conscious design choice.
777 3) New functions have been added to winbindd to emulate the 'add user
778 script' family of smbd functions without requiring that external
779 scripts be defined. This functionality is controlled by the 'winbind
780 enable local accounts' smb.conf parameter (enabled by default).
782 However, this account management functionality is only supported
783 in a local tdb (winbindd_idmap.tdb). If these new UNIX accounts
784 must be shared among multiple Samba servers (such as a PDC and BDCs),
785 it will be necessary to define your own 'add user script', et. al.
786 programs that place the accounts/groups in some form of directory
787 such as NIS or LDAP. This requirement was deemed beyond the scope
788 of winbind's account management functions. Solutions for
789 distributing UNIX system information have been deployed and tested
790 for many years. We saw no need to reinvent the wheel.
792 4) A member of a Samba controlled domain running winbindd is now able
793 to map domain users directly onto existing UNIX accounts while still
794 automatically creating accounts for trusted users and groups. This
795 behavior is controlled by the 'winbind trusted domains only' smb.conf
796 parameter (disabled by default to provide 2.2.x winbind behavior).
798 5) Group mapping support is wrapped in the local_XX_to_XX() functions
799 in smbd/uid.c. The reason that group mappings are not included
800 in winbindd is because the purpose of Samba's group map is to
801 match any Windows SID with an existing UNIX group. These UNIX
802 groups can be created by winbindd (see next section), but the
803 SID<->gid mapping is retreived by smbd, not winbindd.
809 * security = server running winbindd to allocate accounts on demand
811 * Samba PDC running winbindd to handle the automatic creation of UNIX
812 identities for machine trust accounts
814 * Automtically creating UNIX user and groups when migrating a Windows NT
815 4.0 PDC to a Samba PDC. Winbindd must be running when executing
816 'net rpc vampire' for this to work.
819 ######################################################################
823 * There are several bugs currently logged against the 3.0 codebase
824 that affect the use of NT 4.0 GUI domain management tools when run
825 against a Samba 3.0 PDC. This bugs should be released in an early
828 Please refer to https://bugzilla.samba.org/ for a current list of bugs
829 filed against the Samba 3.0 codebase.
832 ######################################################################
833 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
834 #######################################
836 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
837 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
839 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
840 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
841 the problem then you will probably be ignored.
843 A new bugzilla installation has been established to help support the
844 Samba 3.0 community of users. This server, located at
845 https://bugzilla.samba.org/, has replaced the older jitterbug server
846 previously located at http://bugs.samba.org/.