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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index 342996a2751..07a650af895 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ - WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 beta1 - June 7 2003 + WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0.0 beta2 + July 1 2003 ============================== -This is a beta release of Samba 3.0.0. This is a non-production release -intended for testing purposes. Use at your own risk. +This is the second beta release of Samba 3.0.0. This is a +non-production release intended for testing purposes. Use +at your own risk. The purpose of this beta release is to get wider testing of the major new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have @@ -76,6 +77,105 @@ begin with the Samba-HOWTO-Collection for overviews and specific tasks (the current book is up to approximately 400 pages) and to refer to the various man pages for information on individual options. +###################################################################### +Changes since 3.0beta1 +###################### + +Please refer to the CVS log for the SAMBA_3_0 branch for complete +details + +1) Rework our smb signing code again, this factors out some of + the common MAC calcuation code, and now supports multiple + outstanding packets (bug #40) +2) Enforce 'client plaintext auth', 'client lanman auth' and 'client + ntlmv2 auth' +3) Correct timestamp problem on 64-bit machines (bug #140) +4) Add extra debugging staements to winbindd for tracking down + failures +5) Fix bug when aliased 'winbind uid/gid' parameters +6) Added an auth flag that indicates if we should be allowed + to fallback to NTLMSSP for SASL if krb5 fails +7) Fixed the bug that forced us not to use the winbindd cache when + we have a primary ADS domain and a secondary (trusted) NT4 domain. +8) Use lp_realm() to find the default realm for 'net ads password' +9) Removed editreg from standard build until it is portable. +10) Fix domain membership for servers not running winbindd +11) Correct race condition in determining the high water make + in the idmap backend (bug #181) +12) Set the user's primary unix group from usrmgr.exe (partial + fix for bug #45) +13) Show comments when doing 'net group -l' (bug #3) +14) Add trivial extension to 'net' to dump current local idmap + and restore mappings as well +15) Modify 'net rpc vampire' to add new and existing users to + both the idmap and the SAM. +16) Fix crash bug in ADS searches +17) Build libnss_wins.so as part of nsswitch target (bug #160) +18) Make net rpc vampire return an error if the sam sync RPC + returns an error +19) Fail to join an NT 4 domain as a BDC if an workstation account + using our name exists +20) Fix various memory leaks in server and client code +21) Remove the short option to --set-auth-user for wbinfo (-A) to + prevent confusion with the -a option (bug #158) +22) Added new 'map acl inheritence' parameter +23) Removed unused 'privileges' code from group mapping database +24) Don't segfault on empty passdb backend list (bug #136) +25) Fixed acl sorting algorithm forWwindows 2000 clients +26) Replace universal group cache with netsamlogon_cache + from APPLIANCE_HEAD branch +27) Fix autoconf detection issues surrounding --with-ads=yes + but no Krb5 header files installed (bug #152) +28) Add LDAP lookup for domain sequence number in case we are + joined using NT4 protocols to a native mode AD domain +29) Fix backend method selection for trusted NT 4 (or 2k + mixed mode) domains +30) Fixed bug that caused us to enuemrate dmain local groups + from native mode AD domains other than our own +31) Correct group enumeration for viewing in the Windows + security tab (bug #110) +32) Consolidate the DC location code +33) Moved 'ads server' functionality into 'password server' for + backwards compatibility +34) Fix winbindd_idmap tdb upgrades from a 2.2 installation + ( if you installed beta1, be sure to + 'mv idmap.tdb winbindd_idamap.tdb' ) +35) Fix pdb_ldap segfaults, and wrong default values for + ldapsam_compat +36) Enable negative connection cache for winbindd's ADS backend + functions +37) Enable address caching for active directory DC's so we don't + have to hit DNS so much +38) Fix bug in idmap code that caused mapping to randomly be + redefined +39) Add tdb locking code to prevent race condition when adding a + new mapping to idmap +40) Fix 'map to guest = bad user' when acting as a PDC supporting + trust relationships +41) Prevent deadlock issues when running winbindd on a Samba PDC + to handle allocating uids & gids for trusted users and groups +42) added LOCALE patch from Steve Langasek (bug #122) +43) Add the 'guest' passdb backend automatically to the end of + the 'passdb backend' list if 'guest account' has a valid + username. +44) Remove samstrict_dc auth method. Rework 'samstrict' to only + handle our local names (or domain name if we are a PDC). + Move existing permissive 'sam' method to 'sam_ignoredomain' + and make 'samstrict' the new default 'sam' auth method. +45) Match Windows NT4/2k behavior when authenticating a user with + and unknown domain (default to our domain if we are a DC or + domain member; default to our local name if we are a + standalone server) +46) Fix Get_Pwnam() to always fall back to lookup 'user' if the + 'DOMAIN\user' lookup fails. This matches 2.2. behavior. +47) Fix the trustdom_cache code to update the list of trusted + domains when operating as a domain member and not using + winbindd +48) Remove 'nisplussam' passdb backend since it has suffered for + too long without a maintainer + + + ###################################################################### Upgrading from Samba 2.2 @@ -162,7 +262,6 @@ New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function): Authentication -------------- * auth methods - * ads server * realm Protocol Options @@ -187,6 +286,7 @@ New Parameters (new parameters have been grouped by function): * hostname lookups * kernel change notify * mangle prefix + * map acl inheritence * msdfs proxy * set quota command * use sendfile @@ -248,25 +348,24 @@ ${lock directory}/*tdb before upgrading to Samba 3.0. Samba will upgrade databases as they are opened (if necessary), but downgrading from 3.0 to 2.2 is an unsupported path. -Name Description Backup? ----- ----------- ------- -account_policy User policy settings yes -gencache Generic caching db no -group_mapping Mapping table from Windows yes - groups/SID to unix groups -idmap new ID map table from SIDS yes - to UNIX uids/gids. -namecache Name resolution cache entries no -netlogon_unigrp Cache of universal group no - membership obtained when - operating as a member of a - Windows domain -printing/*.tdb Cached output from 'lpq no - command' created on a per print - service basis -registry Read-only samba registry skeleton no - that provides support for exporting - various db tables via the winreg RPCs +Name Description Backup? +---- ----------- ------- +account_policy User policy settings yes +gencache Generic caching db no +group_mapping Mapping table from Windows yes + groups/SID to unix groups +idmap new ID map table from SIDS yes + to UNIX uids/gids. +namecache Name resolution cache entries no +netsamlogon_cache Cache of NET_USER_INFO_3 structure no + returned as part of a successful + net_sam_logon request +printing/*.tdb Cached output from 'lpq no + command' created on a per print + service basis +registry Read-only samba registry skeleton no + that provides support for exporting + various db tables via the winreg RPCs Changes in Behavior @@ -426,13 +525,6 @@ with NFS that were present in Samba 2.2. Known Issues ############ -* One such limitation that is worth mentioning (and will be corrected - before the actual stable 3.0.0 release is the dead lock problem with - running winbindd on a Samba PDC in order to allocate uids and gids for - users and groups in a trusted domain. When the Samba domain is acting - as the trusted domain to a Windows NT 4.0 domain, there are no known - issues. - * The smbldap perl scripts for managing user entries in an LDAP directory have not be updated to function with the Samba 3.0 schema changes. This (or an equivalent solution) work is planned |