Samba 2.0 Beta23 released !

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Tue Dec 8 00:41:09 GMT 1998 

The Samba Team are pleased to announce Samba 2.0 Beta3

This is the third of (hopefully) a short series of Beta
releases of the 2.0 code and incorporates bug fixes and
changes from feedback gained from the first two betas.

We are relasing these Betas to enable the Samba Team to gain
wider testing of the new autoconf mechanism and fix any
bugs before the first ship of the new stable version of
Samba - Samba 2.0.

Samba 2.0 Beta3 is available in source form from
samba.org and all of our mirror sites. Please go
to your nearest mirror site from samba.org and
click on the link under the "Samba News" announcement
to download this code.

Please try this code and give us feedback.

If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email
a report to :

samba-bugs at samba.org

The WHATSNEW.txt file follows.

As always, any bugs are our responsibility,

Regards,

        The Samba Team.

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          Issues fixed between Beta2 and Beta3
          ------------------------------------

1). New parameters added :
    "add user script"
    "delete user script"
    Designed to allow Samba servers to be set up with
    no UNIX users and to allow them to create the needed
    UNIX users on the fly. See the smb.conf documentation
    for more details.
2). Autoconf issues including fixes for large file support for
    Solaris and SINIX, and stat64 tests on SVR4 systems.
3). Code dealing with dos pathnames and native pathnames split
    to be explicit about when Samba is accessing which type of
    name.
4). Fix for missing PRINTCAP define under HPUX.
5). Added Samba specific strtoul().
6). Fix for reverse filename mapping with ISO8859-5 filenames.
7). Fix for nmbd not starting correctly sometimes due to pid
    locking file.
8). Check for error returns in file descriptor limit checking code.
9). Kernel oplock code bugfix.
10). Restored client retarget code.
11). Fix for potential stack overflow in Digital UNIX crypt check.
12). Explicitly test for negative uids in smbpasswd file.
13). Fix for NT username in Domain logon code.
14). Patch from Scott Moomaw <scott at bridgewater.edu> to correctly
     return "Invalid Info level" to Win95 printer clients.
15). Fix to allow NT printer clients to add printers (as 1.9.18
     code would allow).
16). Fix to prevent ".." being used in servicename.
17). New SWAT icons.

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          Issues fixed between Beta1 and Beta2
          ------------------------------------

1). Many autoconf issues (too many to list here).
2). Correctly set default printing for AIX.
3). Attempt to fix struct rtentry not being defined problem.
4). Convert all open() style calls to wrappers for 64 bit systems.
5). Get more 'const' correct.
6). Fix bug with O_EXCL not being set on exlusive open requests.
7). Fix string_sub() problem with LinPopup.
8). Fix lmhosts bug causing only 3 character names to be looked up.
9). Fixed bug with NetBIOS pointers in scope names.
10). Removed code that was preventing NT3.51 PDC logons from working.
11). Fixed crash bug when processing DELETE_ON_CLOSE directive from MS Office.
12). Fixed NT4.x problems adding printer.
13). Stop multiple logs of NT ACL's not supported messages.
14). Changed 'security=server' mode to use *SMBSERVER name if
     initial connect refused.
15). Fixed NT4.x problem with modify times not being preserved
     on explorer file copy.
16). 'Silent' switch for testparm.
17). Added 'hosts allow/deny' checks to SWAT.

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          WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.0.0 beta3
          ==============================

This is a MAJOR new release of Samba, the UNIX based SMB/CIFS file 
and print server for Windows systems.

There have been many changes in Samba since the last major release,
1.9.18.  These have mainly been in the areas of performance and
SMB protocol correctness.  In addition, a Web based GUI interface
for configuring Samba has been added.

In addition, Samba has been re-written to help portability to
other POSIX-based systems, based on the GNU autoconf tool.

Major changes in Samba 2.0
--------------------------

There are many major changes in Samba for version 2.0.  Here are 
some of them:

=====================================================================

1). Speed
---------

Samba has been benchmarked on high-end UNIX hardware as out-performing
all other SMB/CIFS servers using the Ziff-Davis NetBench benchmark.
Many changes to the code to optimise high-end performance have been made.

2). Correctness
---------------

Samba now supports the Windows NT specific SMB requests.  This
means that on platforms that are capable Samba now presents a
64 bit view of the filesystem to Windows NT clients and is
capable of handling very large files.

3). Portability
---------------

Samba is now self-configuring using GNU autoconf, removing
the need for people installing Samba to have to hand configure
Makefiles, as was needed in previous versions.

You now configure Samba by running "./configure" then "make".  See
docs/textdocs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt for details.

4). Web based GUI configuration
-------------------------------

Samba now comes with SWAT, a web based GUI config system.  See
the swat man page for details on how to set it up.

5). Cross protocol data integrity
---------------------------------

An open function interface has been defined to allow 
"opportunistic locks" (oplocks for short) granted by Samba
to be seen by other UNIX processes.  This allows complete
cross protocol (NFS and SMB) data integrety using Samba
with platforms that support this feature.

6). Domain client capability
----------------------------

Samba is now capable of using a Windows NT PDC for user
authentication in exactly the same way that a Windows NT
workstation does, i.e. it can be a member of a Domain.  See
docs/textdocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.txt for details.

7). Documentation Updates
-------------------------

All the reference parts of the Samba documentation (the
manual pages) have been updated and converted to a document
format that allows automatic generation of HTML, SGML, and
text formats.  These documents now ship as standard in HTML
and manpage format.

=====================================================================

NOTE - Some important option defaults changed
---------------------------------------------

Several parameters have changed their default values.  The most
important of these is that the default security mode is now user
level security rather than share level security.

This (incompatible) change was made to ease new Samba installs
as user level security is easier to use for Windows 95/98 and
Windows NT clients.

********IMPORTANT NOTE****************

If you have no "security=" line in the [global] section of 
your current smb.conf and you update to Samba 2.0 you will
need to add the line :

security=share

to get exactly the same behaviour with Samba 2.0 as you
did with previous versions of Samba.

********END IMPORTANT NOTE*************

In addition, Samba now defaults to case sensitivity options that
match a Windows NT server precisely, that is, case insensitive 
but case preserving.

=====================================================================

NOTE - Primary Domain Controller Functionality
----------------------------------------------

This version of Samba contains code that correctly implements
the undocumented Primary Domain Controller authentication
protocols.  However, there is much more to being a Primary
Domain Controller than serving Windows NT logon requests.

A useful version of a Primary Domain Controller contains
many remote procedure calls to do things like enumerate users, 
groups, and security information, only some of which Samba currently
implements. In addion, there are outstanding (known) bugs with
using Samba as a PDC in this release that the Samba Team are actively
working on. For this reason we have chosen not to advertise and 
actively support Primary Domain Controller functionality with this
release.

This work is being done in the CVS (developer) versions of Samba,
development of which continues at a fast pace.  If you are
interested in participating in or helping with this development
please join the Samba-NTDOM mailing list.  Details on joining
are available at :

http://samba.org/listproc/

Details on obtaining CVS (developer) versions of Samba
are available at:

http://samba.org/cvs.html

=====================================================================

If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email 
a report to :

        samba-bugs at samba.org

As always, all bugs are our responsibility.

Regards,

        The Samba Team.

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