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2 Release Notes for Samba 3.4.0pre1
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7 This is the first preview release of Samba 3.4. This is *not*
8 intended for production environments and is designed for testing
9 purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
10 system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
13 Major enhancements in Samba 3.4.0 include:
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17 o Samba4 and Samba3 sources are included in the tarball
19 Authentication Changes:
20 o Changed the way smbd handles untrusted domain names given during user
24 o Various fixes including printer change notificiation for Samba spoolss
28 o The remaining hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services (ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog
29 and spoolss) were replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL.
30 o Samba3 and Samba4 do now share a common tevent library.
31 o The code has been cleaned up and the major basic interfaces are shared with
33 o An asynchronous API has been added.
39 On the way towards a standalone Samba AD domain controller, Samba3 and Samba4
40 branches can be built as "merged" build. That's why Samba3 and Samba4 sources
41 are included in the tarball. The merged build is possible in Samba 3.4.0, but
42 disabled by default. To learn more about the merged build,
43 please see http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Franky.
45 According to this one, there is no "source" directory included in the tarball at
46 all. Samba3 sources are located in "source3", Samba4 sources are located in
47 "source4". The libraries have been moved to the toplevel directory.
49 To build plain Samba3, please change to "source3" and start the build as usual.
50 To build Samba4 as well, please use the "--enable-merged-build" configure
54 Authentication Changes
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57 Previously, when Samba was a domain member and a client was connecting using an
58 untrusted domain name, such as BOGUS\user smbd would remap the untrusted
59 domain to the primary domain smbd was a member of and attempt authentication
60 using that DOMAIN\user name. This differed from how a Windows member server
61 would behave. Now, smbd will replace the BOGUS name with it's SAM name. In
62 the case where smbd is acting as a PDC this will be DOMAIN\user. In the case
63 where smbd is acting as a domain member server this will be WORKSTATION\user.
64 Thus, smbd will never assume that an incoming user name which is not qualified
65 with the same primary domain, is part of smbd's primary domain.
67 While this behavior matches Windows, it may break some workflows which depended
68 on smbd to always pass through bogus names to the DC for verification. A new
69 parameter "map untrusted to domain" can be enabled to revert to the legacy
76 The spoolss subsystem was replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL. That fixes
77 several printing issues including printer change notificiation on Samba print
78 servers and will stabilize the printing functionality generally.
79 The support for spoolss printing with Windows Vista has been improved.
85 The remaining hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services (ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and
86 spoolss) were replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL.
87 So Günther Deschner finally corrected one of the biggest mistakes in the
88 development of Samba: Hand-marshalled RPC stubs.
92 Samba3 and Samba4 do now share a common tevent library for fd and timer events.
94 The code has been cleaned up and Samba3 and Samba4 do share the major basic
95 interfaces now. That is why the libraries were moved to the toplevel directory.
96 That is one of the first steps to share code and minimize the gap between
99 An asynchronous API has been added.
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109 Parameter Name Description Default
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112 access based share enum New No
113 dedicated keytab file New ""
114 kerberos method New default
115 map untrusted to domain New No
116 max open files Changed Default auto detected
117 perfcount module New ""
118 use kerberos keytab Removed
124 net eventlog Tool to import/dump/export native win32 eventlog files.
127 New configure options
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130 --enable-external-libtalloc Enable external talloc
131 --enable-merged-build Build Samba 4 as well
132 --enable-gnutls Turn on gnutls support
133 --with-statedir=DIR Where to put persistent state files
134 --with-cachedir=DIR Where to put temporary cache files
135 --with-ncalprcdir=DIR Where to put ncalrpc sockets
136 --with-selftest-shrdir=DIR The share directory that make test will be run
138 --with-selftest-custom-conf=PATH
139 An optional custom smb.conf that is included in
140 the server smb.conf during make test
141 --with-wbclient Use external wbclient
142 --with-included-popt Use bundled popt library, not from system
143 --with-libiconv=BASEDIR Use libiconv in BASEDIR/lib and BASEDIR/include
144 --with-sqlite3 SQLITE3 backend support
145 --with-pthreads Include pthreads
146 --with-setproctitle Search for setproctitle support
153 o Steven Danneman <steven.danneman@isilon.com>
154 * Change the way smbd handles untrusted domain names given during user
158 o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
159 * Replace the hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog
160 and spoolss by autogenerated code based on PIDL.
161 * Fix several printing issues and improve support for printer change
163 * Add 'net eventlog'.
166 o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
167 * Add asynchronous API.
170 o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
171 * Make Samba3 and Samba4 share a tevent library.
174 o Dan Sledz <dsledz@isilon.com>
175 * Add two new parameters to control how we verify kerberos tickets.
178 o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
179 * Make merged build possible.
180 * Move common libraries to the shared lib/ directory.
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184 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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187 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
188 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net.
190 If you do report problems then please try to send high quality
191 feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down
192 the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should
193 be filed under the Samba 3.4 product in the project's Bugzilla
194 database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).
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198 == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
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