Samba 2.0.0 Beta5 released.
Jeremy Allison
jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Thu Dec 31 02:01:48 GMT 1998
The Samba Team is pleased to announce Samba 2.0.0 Beta5
This is the fifth of (hopefully) a short series of Beta
releases of the 2.0.0 code and incorporates bug fixes and
changes from feedback gained from the earlier betas.
Show-stopper bugs notwithstanding, this is expected to be
the last beta release before the official ship of the
stable Samba 2.0.0 release, so it is very important for
people to send feedback and patches for configuring and
building Samba 2.0.0 on unusual platforms. We made this
same announcement for Beta4, but due to the number of
autoconf (and other) problems fixed since the release
of Beta4 we thought it safer to release another Beta.
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 2.0.0.
Samba 2.0.0 Beta5 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 Beta4 and Beta5
------------------------------------
1). Recuse directory bug with NT and smbtar fixed. smbtar now
recurses through all directories correctly.
2). Subtle bug fixed with the SIGCLD eating process status values
in cases where they are needed.
3). Fixed autoconf detection and handling of the different
setresuid/seteuid/setuid calls on different UNIXs.
4). Wrapped readdir64 for large file support.
5). Fixed --with-nisplus compile for Solaris.
6). Fixed wildcard bug with 16 bit clients. Also got closer
to NT wildcard semantics.
7). Allowed seek fails with EPIPE when doing client seeks to
allow Windows clients to communicate with UNIX processes via
fifo's (worked on 1.9.18, was broken in 2.0.0beta1-4).
8). Fixed compile bug with slow share mode code.
9). Fixes for QNX compiles.
10). Fixed recursion bug in nmbd if WINS server returns an
error at a bad time :-).
11). Log AFS auth fail.
12). Fixed Digital UNIX enhanced security problem with SWAT.
13). Updated SID generation code to produce NT compatible SIDs.
14). Fixed bug with ENOSPC on close() calls. This should now
be detected and returned to the client.
15). NT transact parameters weren't being zeroed out before use.
16). Fixed lockread bug where it was asking for a read-only
lock. It should be using a write lock (however strange this
seems :-).
17). Many SWAT printer fixes from Herb Lewis.
18). SWAT parameters now grouped in a more logical way.
19). Changed main smbd select loop to 60 seconds, smb.conf checks
to every 120 seconds to reduce load on large servers.
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Issues fixed between Beta3 and Beta4
------------------------------------
1). More sanity checks in testparm code to help diagnose smb.conf
problems.
2). Ensure log header not written before log rotated.
3). Fix getrlimit number of file descriptors problem with AIX.
AIX supports the call but always returns infinity. This was
causing smbd to try and allocate a large amount of memory.
4). Fixed name lookup in lmhosts to match the documentation for
name type lookup.
5). Removed need to link password database code into nmbd.
6). Stop nmbd sending broadcast name refresh requests, use
permanent TTL on broadcast interfaces.
7). Flag "PRINTER" and "SHARE" parameters so SWAT can display
them correctly.
8). Fix SWAT so that it can display auto-generated printer list.
9). Added AFS and DCE auth includes back.
10). Added workaround to Windows NT redirector bug where it sends
64 bit lock requests to systems that don't support 64 bit offsets
(eg. Linux).
11). Fixed name mangling cache bug.
12). Fix smbpasswd bug where a missmatched password could be mis-interpreted
when adding a user.
13). Updates to SWAT to display "commit" button if user has write
access to smb.conf.
14). Fixed to autoconf for HPUX systems to work around broken
HPUX shadow.h include file.
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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 beta5
==============================
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.
The default format of the smbpasswd file has also been
changed for this release, although the new tools will read
and write the old format, for backwards compatibility.
=====================================================================
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 addition, 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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