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authorKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2010-01-26 14:58:45 +0100
committerKarolin Seeger <kseeger@samba.org>2010-01-26 15:05:01 +0100
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WHATSNEW: Update changes.samba-3.5.0rc2
Karolin (cherry picked from commit 048adb50d83a3928820e6607451d582696cd7cc7)
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@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.0 include:
General changes:
o Add support for full Windows timestamp resolution
o The Using Samba HTML book has been removed.
+o 'net', 'smbclient' and libsmbclient can use credentials cached by Winbind.
Protocol changes:
o Experimental implementation of SMB2
@@ -38,6 +39,12 @@ kernel (2.6.22 and higher) and the glibc (2.6 and higher).
The Using Samba HTML book has been removed from the Samba tarball.
It is still available at http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/toc.html.
+Samba client tools like 'net', 'smbclient' and libsmbclient can use the user
+credentials cached by Winbind at logon time. This is very useful e.g. when
+connecting to a Samba server using Nautilus without re-entering username and
+password. This feature is enabled by default and can be disabled per application
+by setting the LIBSMBCLIENT_NO_CCACHE environment variable.
+
Protocol changes
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@@ -105,6 +112,8 @@ o Björn Jacke <bj@sernet.de>
o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* Major internal refactoring of the Winbind daemon.
* Make Winbind asynchronous.
+ * Make 'net', 'smbclient' and libsmbclient use the logon credentials cached
+ by Winbind.
o Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org>
@@ -159,6 +168,8 @@ o Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
* BUG 7027: Fix a segfault in winbindd_dual_ccache_ntlm_auth().
* BUG 7037: Fix a Winbind segfault in "trusted_domains".
* BUG 7046: Fix libsmbclient crash against OpenSolaris CIFS server.
+ * BUG 7062: Make 'net', 'smbclient' and libsmbclient use the logon
+ credentials cached by Winbind.
* Lock down some srvsvc calls according to what w2k3 seems to do.