[Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.6.14 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

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					"Just play. Have fun.
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Release Announcements
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This is is the latest stable release of Samba 3.6.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.14 include:

o  Certain xattrs cause Windows error 0x800700FF (bug #9130).

Changes since 3.6.13:
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o   Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>
    * BUG 9130: Certain xattrs cause Windows error 0x800700FF.
    * BUG 9724: Use is_encrypted_packet() function correctly inside server.
    * BUG 9733: Fix 'smbcontrol close-share' is not working.
    * BUG 9747: Make sure that we only propogate the INHERITED flag when we are
      allowed to.
    * BUG 9748: Remove unneeded fstat system call from hot read path.
    * BUG 9811: Fix bug in old create temp SMB request. Only use VFS functions.


o   David Disseldorp <ddiss at samba.org>
    * BUG 9650: New or deleted CUPS printerqueues are not recognized by Samba.
    * BUG 9807: wbinfo: Fix segfault in wbinfo_pam_logon.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl at samba.org>
    * BUG 9727: wkssvc: Fix NULL pointer dereference.
    * BUG 9736: smbd: Tune "dir" a bit.
    * BUG 9775: Fix segfault for "artificial" conn_structs.
    * BUG 9809: RHEL SPEC: Package dbwrap_tool man page.


o   Andreas Schneider <asn at samba.org>
    * BUG 9139: Fix the username map optimization.
    * BUG 9699: Fix adding case sensitive spn.
    * BUG 9723: Add a tool to migrate latin1 printing tdbs to registry.
    * BUG 9735: Fix Winbind separator in upn to username conversion.
    * BUG 9766: Cache name_to_sid/sid_to_name correctly.


Note about upgrading from older versions:
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It is still the case that there are printing tdbs (ntprinting.tdb, ntforms.tdb,
ntdrivers.tdb) which are in latin1 or other encodings. When updating from
Samba 3.5 or earlier to Samba 3.6 or 4.0 these tdbs need to be migrated to our
new registry based printing management.  This means during the migration we
also need to do charset conversion. This can only been done manually cause we don't
know in which encoding the tdb is. You have to specify the correct code page
for the conversion, see iconv -l and Wikipedia [1] for the available codepages.
The mostly used one is Windows Latin1 which is CP1252.

We've extended the 'net printing dump' and 'net printing migrate' commands to
define the encoding of the tdb. So you can correctly view the tdb with:

  net printing dump encoding=CP1252 /path/to/ntprinters.tdb

or migrate it with e.g.:

  net printing migrate encoding=CP1252 /path/to/ntprinters.tdb

If you migrate printers we suggest you do it in the following order.

ntforms.tdb
ntdrivers.tdb
ntprinting.tdb

Don't forget to rename, move or delete these files in /var/lib/samba after the
migration.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page


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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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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.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba corresponding product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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Download Details
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The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/

The release notes are available online at:

        http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/history/samba-3.6.14.html

Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from

        http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/

Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
(https://bugzilla.samba.org/)

                        --Enjoy
                        The Samba Team