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- Release Notes for Samba 3.4.0pre1
-
+ Release Notes for Samba 3.4.0pre2
+ June 02, 2009
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-This is the first preview release of Samba 3.4. This is *not*
+This is the second preview release of Samba 3.4. This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/.
Authentication Changes:
o Changed the way smbd handles untrusted domain names given during user
- authentication
+ authentication.
+
+Printing Changes:
+o Various fixes including printer change notificiation for Samba spoolss
+ print servers.
Internal changes:
-o The ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and spoolss subsystems have been converted
- to IDL.
+o The remaining hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services (ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog
+ and spoolss) were replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL.
o Samba3 and Samba4 do now share a common tevent library.
+o The code has been cleaned up and the major basic interfaces are shared with
+ Samba4 now.
+o An asynchronous API has been added.
+net Command Changes:
+o Parameter syntax made more consistent.
General Changes
===============
behavior.
+Printing Changes
+================
+
+The spoolss subsystem was replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL. That fixes
+several printing issues including printer change notificiation on Samba print
+servers and will stabilize the printing functionality generally.
+The support for spoolss printing with Windows Vista has been improved.
+
+
Internal Changes
================
-The ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and spoolss subsystems have been converted to IDL.
+The remaining hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services (ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog and
+spoolss) were replaced by autogenerated code based on PIDL.
So Günther Deschner finally corrected one of the biggest mistakes in the
development of Samba: Hand-marshalled RPC stubs.
Samba3 and Samba4 do now share a common tevent library for fd and timer events.
+The code has been cleaned up and Samba3 and Samba4 do share the major basic
+interfaces now. That is why the libraries were moved to the toplevel directory.
+That is one of the first steps to share code and minimize the gap between
+these two versions.
+
+An asynchronous API has been added.
+
+
+net Command Changes
+===================
+
+The net command now accepts the common command line parameters most other Samba
+command line utilities use, with a couple of remaining differences:
+
+-l still gives long output for net commands supporting the --long flag. This was
+more useful than the common --log-base parameter.
+
+-i still tells net to read data from stdin (like --stdin) instead of toggling
+the common --scope flag.
+
+-S still tells net the server to connect to (like --server) instead of
+negotiating the common --signing flag. As -S is probably used by most scripts
+doing net rpc commands, this would have been a high-impact change for little
+gain.
+
+This change was mainly done to unify the authentification options. Here, one
+flag changed it's meaning and one useful flag was added.
+
+-N used to be the short version of --ntname. It now matches the Samba default of
+--no-pass. Use this to stop net from prompting for a password if you want
+anonymous authentication.
+
+-A --authentication-file now takes an authentication file with the username and
+password you want net to use, avoiding a password prompt as with plain -U user
+or having to give a password on the command line as in -U user%pass.
+
+Last but not least net now always falls back to your local unix username if no
+-U is specified and a username is needed. net rpc commands will now prompt for a
+password unless one is specified using either -U user%pass or -A auth_file
+
+######################################################################
+Changes
+#######
+
+smb.conf changes
+----------------
+
+ Parameter Name Description Default
+ -------------- ----------- -------
+
+ access based share enum New No
+ dedicated keytab file New ""
+ kerberos method New default
+ map untrusted to domain New No
+ max open files Changed Default auto detected
+ perfcount module New ""
+ use kerberos keytab Removed
+
+
+New [sub]commands
+-----------------
+
+ net eventlog Import/dump/export native win32 eventlog files.
+ net rpc service create Create a new service.
+ net rpc service delete Delete an existing service.
+
+
+New configure options
+---------------------
+
+--enable-external-libtalloc Enable external talloc
+--enable-merged-build Build Samba 4 as well
+--enable-gnutls Turn on gnutls support
+--with-statedir=DIR Where to put persistent state files
+--with-cachedir=DIR Where to put temporary cache files
+--with-ncalprcdir=DIR Where to put ncalrpc sockets
+--with-selftest-shrdir=DIR The share directory that make test will be run
+ against
+--with-selftest-custom-conf=PATH
+ An optional custom smb.conf that is included in
+ the server smb.conf during make test
+--with-wbclient Use external wbclient
+--with-included-popt Use bundled popt library, not from system
+--with-libiconv=BASEDIR Use libiconv in BASEDIR/lib and BASEDIR/include
+--with-sqlite3 SQLITE3 backend support
+--with-pthreads Include pthreads
+--with-setproctitle Search for setproctitle support
+
+
+Commit Highlights
+=================
+
+
+o Steven Danneman <steven.danneman@isilon.com>
+ * Change the way smbd handles untrusted domain names given during user
+ authentication.
+
+
+o Guenther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * Replace the hand-marshalled DCE/RPC services ntsvcs, svcctl, eventlog
+ and spoolss by autogenerated code based on PIDL.
+ * Fix several printing issues and improve support for printer change
+ notificiations.
+ * Add 'net eventlog'.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * Add asynchronous API.
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * Make Samba3 and Samba4 share a tevent library.
+
+
+o Dan Sledz <dsledz@isilon.com>
+ * Add two new parameters to control how we verify kerberos tickets.
+
+
+o Danny Tylman <danny.tylman@insightix.com>
+ * Add 'net rpc service' subcommands 'create' and 'delete'.
+
+
+o Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org>
+ * Make merged build possible.
+ * Move common libraries to the shared lib/ directory.
+
+
+Changes since 3.4.0pre1
+-----------------------
+
+
+o Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
+ * BUG 6291: Fix 'force user'.
+ * BUG 6313: ldapsam_update_sam_account() crashes while doing talloc_free on
+ malloced memory.
+ * BUG 6315: Fix smbd crashes when doing vfs_full_audit on IPC$ close event.
+ * BUG 6330: Fix DFS on AIX.
+ * Fix a bunch of compiler warnings about wrong format types.
+ * Fix the core of the SAMR access functions.
+ * Fix SAMR server for winbindd access.
+
+
+o Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
+ * BUG 4271: testparm should not print includes.
+ * BUG 6292: Update config.guess from gnu.org.
+ * BUG 6320: Handle registry config source in file_list.
+ * BUG 6371: Unsuccessful 'net conf setparm' leaves empty share.
+ * BUG 6387: Fix a crash bug in idmap_ldap_unixids_to_sids.
+ * BUG 6415: Filter out of range mappings in default idmap config
+ (idmap_tdb).
+ * BUG 6416: Filter out of range mappings in default idmap config
+ (idmap_tdb2).
+ * BUG 6417: Filter out of range mappings in default idmap config
+ (idmap_ldap).
+ * Add dbwrap_tool - a tdb tool that is CTDB-aware.
+ * Hide "config backend" from swat.
+ * Fix linking with --disable-shared-libs.
+
+
+o Kai Blin <kai@samba.org>
+ * BUG #6357: Use Samba default command line arguments in 'net'.
+
+
+o Steven Danneman <steven.danneman@isilon.com>
+ * Fix issue with missing entries when enumerating directories.
+ * Map NULL domains to our global sam name.
+
+
+o Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
+ * BUG 5859: Fix renaming of samr objects failed due to samr setuserinfo
+ access checks.
+ * BUG 6099: Fix NETLOGON credential chain.
+ * BUG 6253: Use correct value for password expiry calculation.
+ * BUG 6309: Support remote unjoining of Windows 2003 or greater.
+ * BUG 6340: Don't segfault when cleartext trustdom pwd could not be
+ retrieved.
+ * BUG 6372: usermanager only displaying 1024 groups and aliases.
+ * Fix driver upload for Xerox 4110 PS printer driver.
+ * Add "net dom renamecomputer" to rename machines in a domain.
+ * Inspect the correct computername string before enabling/disabling the
+ change button in netdomjoin-gui.
+ * Fix join prompt dialog test in netdomjoin-gui.
+ * Only gray out labels when not root and not connecting to remote
+ machines (netdomjoin-gui).
+ * Allow to switch between workgroups/domains with the same name
+ (netdomjoin-gui).
+ * Add NetShutdownInit and NetShutdownAbort.
+ * Fix samr access checks.
+ * Add a security model to LSA.
+
+
+o Geza Gemes <geza@kzsdabas.hu>
+ * BUG 6136: New AFS syscall conventions.
+
+
+o Ole Hansen <ole@redvw.com>
+ * BUG 6359: smbclient -L does not list workgroup for hosts with both IPv4
+ and IPv6 addresses
+
+
+o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
+ * BUG 4831: Don't call openlog() or closelog() from pam_smbpass.
+ * Also handle DirX return codes.
+
+
+o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
+ * BUG 5681: Do not limit the number of network interfaces.
+ * BUG 6157: Fix handling of multi-value attribute "uid".
+ * BUG 6302: Give the VFS a chance to read from 0-byte files.
+ * BUG 6336: Fix segfault in 'net groupmap set'.
+ * BUG 6361: Make --rcfile work in smbget.
+ * Do not crash in ctdbd_traverse if ctdbd is not around.
+ * Fix Coverity ID 897.
+ * Fix a race condition in vfs_aio_fork with gpfs share modes.
+ * Fix bug disclosed by lock8 torture test.
+ * Fix a race condition in winbind leading to a panic.
+ * Attempt to fix a Debian build problem.
+
+
+o Jim McDonough <jmcd@samba.org>
+ * Detect tight loop in tdb_find().
+
+
+o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
+ * BUG 2346: Fix posix ACLs when setting an ACL without explicit ACE for the
+ owner.
+
+
+o Tim Prouty <tprouty@samba.org>
+ * Fix chained sesssetupAndX/tconn messages.
+ * Fix strict locking with chained reads.
+ * Fix two bugs in sendfile.
+
+
+o Slava Semushin <php-coder@altlinux.ru>
+ * Fix memory leak.
+ * Fix file descriptor leak.
+
+
+o Aravind Srinivasan <aravind.srinivasan@isilon.com>
+ * Fallback to the legacy sid_to_(uid|gid) instead of returning NULL.
+ * Always allocate memory in dptr_ReadDirName.
+
+
+o Marc VanHeyningen <marc.vanheyningen@isilon.com>
+ * Zero an uninitialized array.
+ * Allow child processes to exit gracefully if we are out of fds.
+
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