-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 We've just posted another snapshot of the SAMBA_3_0 cvs tree for download. This is a non-production release provided for testing only.
The source code can be downloaded from : http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/alpha/ The uncompressed tarball and patch file have been signed using GnuPG. The Samba public key is available at http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-pubkey.asc Binary packages for RedHat have been released and can be found at http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/ Others will be available as they are submitted by volunteers. A simplified version of the CVS log of updates since 3.0alpha21 can be found in the the download directory under the name ChangeLog-3.0alpha21-alpha22. The release notes follow. As always, all bugs are our responsibility. --Enjoy The Samba Team - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha22 4th March 2003 ============================== This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release. Use at your own risk. The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0 release we need as many people as possible to start testing these alpha releases, and hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs fixing. Note that Samba 3.0 is not feature complete yet. There is a more coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have done already more widely tested we will have a hard time doing a stable release in a reasonable time frame. Major new features: - ------------------- - - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos. - - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte and UNICODE character sets. - - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal, but the new auth system is also very configurable. - - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps persistently. This needs lots of testing. - - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are implemented. - - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This improves error handling a lot. - - better w2k printing support including publishing printer attributes in active directory - - new loadable RPC modules - - new dual-daemon winbindd support for better performance - - support for migrating from a Windows NT 4.0 domain - - support for establishing trust relationships with Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers Plus lots of other changes! Reporting bugs & Development Discussion - --------------------------------------- Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. If you do report problems then please try to send high quality feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down the problem then you will probably be ignored. Changes in alpha22: - ------------------- Added Parameters * client NTLMv2 auth * client lanman auth * client signing * client use spnego * max reported print jobs * msdfs proxy See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details. There are many smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes. 1) remove the global_myname string and replace with wrapper function global_myname() 2) create vfs/ and pdb/ subdirectories for library installs 3) Fixup of ordered cleanup of get_dc_list() 4) Added more autoconf tests for Stratus VOS 5) Fixed nasty bug where file writes with start offsets in the range 0x80000000 -> 0xFFFFFFFF would fail as they were being cast from IVAL (uint32) to SMB_OFF_T (off_t or off64_t, both *signed* types). The sign extension would cause the offset to be treated as negative. 6) Add support to automatically retrieve the dns host name and domain name of an AD server 7) Add support for PRINTER_INFO_7 and publishing printer attributes in active directory 8) Fix for 64 bit issues with oplocks and allocation size 9) Remove assert(count ==1) for multi-homed PDCs when resolving DOMAIN<0x1b> 10) Ensure that change_trust_account_password() always talks to the PDC 11) Add some docs on CUPS printing 12) Fix rpcclient querygroup command 13) The _abs time functions should not be converting from/to GMT 14) Fix broken incremental tar in smbclient 15) Adding supporting code for better testing using Valgrind 16) Fix for old DOS client when veto files is set to /.*/ 17) Add win32 utility to query driver capabilities to publish (examples/printing/prtpub.c) 18) Fix memory leak when constructing an driver_level_6 structure and no dependent files 19) Add some friendly versions of NT_STATUS codes 20) Protect nmbd against malformed reply packets 21) Removal of unpopular winbind client environment variable 22) Add msdfs proxy functionality; a CIFS share can directly be a stand-in for another share, and when clients connect to the first share, they will be redirected to the proxied share 23) Make Samba compile cleanly with -Wwrite-strings 24) Add new timegm() that actually works on solaris 25) Add support for running smbd, nmbd, & winbindd under the daemontools package 26) Move user password changes into the NTSTATUS era, and add support for the 'min password age' and 'min passwd len' concepts 27) Add new gencache based namecache code 28) Add profiles utility support to Samba 3.0.x 29) Fix open problem with changing attributes on an existing file 30) Efficiency fixes for internal messaging system 31) Make sure to update print queue cache during timeout_processing() to send notify events 32) Make -i flag work like it did in 2.2 33) Merge some rpcclient and net functionality from HEAD 34) Add support for compiling with Heimdal kerberos libraries 35) Connect to the actual netbios name in smb.conf and not LOCALHOST 36) Add support for CUPS-PRINTER_CLASS 37) Add ntlm_auth tool and update NTLMSSP support 38) require Autoconf 2.53 and remove configure from CVS 39) Check for too many processes *before* the fork 40) Fix delete on close semantics to match W2K. 41) merge desired_access for open_printer_ex from HEAD, allowing cupsaddsmb to work again! 42) Add support for dynamic RPC modules 43) wrap all cm_get_XX calls and their subsequent requests in a retry loop in case we've temporarily lost connection to the DC. Makes winbindd more reliable 44) Optimize user_ok() and user_in_group() when verifying group membership 45) Add NTLMv2 client code (that works) and some SMB signing fixes 46) Add caching of PRINTER_INFO_2 structures to open printer handles 47) Add 1/3 second delay in OpenPrinter() reply to trigger a LAN/WAN optimization in Windows 2000 clients 48) Add "WinXP" to the possible values of the %a variable 49) Fix to allow blocking lock notification to be done rapidly (no wait for smb -> smb lock release). Adds new PENDING_LOCK type to lockdb (does not interfere with existing locks) 50) Limit the unix domain sockets used by winbindd (also solves FD_SETSIZE problem in winbindd to boot !). Adds a "last_access" field to winbindd connections, and will close the oldest idle connection once the number of open connections goes over WINBINDD_MAX_SIMULTANEOUS_CLIENTS (defined in local.h as 200 currently) 51) Limit the number of print jobs returned in EnumJobs() -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+ZhiOIR7qMdg1EfYRAnbrAKDyZKVxiHI1sBdGE9Tesxr1ea7jZwCfQvmp flzUT9sbZ123KQ1xt+qnCZY= =VGqn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----