The Samba Team are pleased to announce Samba 1.9.17p1. This is a patch release designed to fix the few bugs that users had reported with our last major release, 1.9.17. This release adds no new functionality, and if you were not impacted by the bugs then there is no need to upgrade from 1.9.17. The list of fixed bugs are : -------------------fix list-------------------------------- Fix for DOS and Windows 95 clients having trouble deleting files on a Samba share in a DOS command line environment. Fixes to set the 'flag' bits correctly when talking to a non-Samba WINS server. Fix for NT clients being dropped when using security=server. Fixes to the printer queue reporting code. Fix for the name map mangle bug (mangling .html -> .htm was not working). ------------------------------------------------------------ The full release notes (from WHATSNEW.txt in the release) are listed below. This new release may be obtained from the following URL: ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/samba-1.9.17p1.tar.gz as a GNU gzip compressed tar file. Thanks to SGI for providing the samba.anu.edu.au Web server hardware. RedHat rpm packaged files will be built by the Samba team, a further announcement will be provided shortly describing their availability. The samba web pages are found at : http://samba.anu.edu.au/samba As usual, please report any bugs with this release to samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au Regards, The Samba Team. ----------------cut here for WHATSNEW.txt------------------- WHATS NEW IN 1.9.17p1 - September 5 1997 ======================================= New stable patch release: Samba - version 1.9.17p1. --------------------------------------------------- This is a patch release which superceedes the last stable release of Samba, release 1.9.17. This release fixes the few bugs that users reported in the previous stable release (1.9.17). These bugfixes are : Fix for DOS and Windows 95 clients having trouble deleting files on a Samba share in a DOS command line environment. Fixes to set the 'flag' bits correctly when talking to a non-Samba WINS server. Fix for NT clients being dropped when using security=server. Fixes to the printer queue reporting code. Fix for the name map mangle bug (mangling .html -> .htm was not working). If you are not affected by any of these problems then there is no need to upgrade. The release notes from the previous stable release follow. The Samba Team. -------------Previous release notes------------------------- New stable release of Samba - 1.9.17 ------------------------------------ This is the new stable release of Samba, superceeding the last stable release 1.9.16p11. All users are encouraged to upgrade to this new release as there have been many improvements to the code since that time. Changes since 1.9.16p11. ------------------------ Improved browsing support. -------------------------- Samba now should support propagation of browse lists across subnets correctly. Look in the file docs/BROWSING.txt as it has been largely re-written to explain how to do this. *IMPORTANT* All Samba servers acting as local/domain master browsers must be running 1.9.17 (or later). Thanks to Silicon Graphics for allowing us to test the new code on their corporate network. Improved share mode handling ---------------------------- The handling of share modes has been completely rewritten. Samba can now run agressive PC Benchmarks (Ziff-Davis NetBench) correctly with many hundreds of concurrent PC's. The confidence level on share mode handling in Samba is now much higher than it was previously. PC database packages should be safe when run against a Samba share. Thanks to Silicon Graphics for testing this code for us. If at all possible compile Samba to use the new share mode handling with shared memory (set the flags FAST_SHARE_MODES in the Makefile). This will be *much* faster than old file-based share modes. FAST_SHARE_MODES have been turned on by default on the following platforms in the Makefile : Linux Solaris BSDI IRIX 5.x.x FreeBSD Roving profile support. ----------------------- Roving profiles are believed to work correctly with Windows NT 4.x and Windows 95. Domain logons are fully implemented *for Windows 95 machines only*. Updated documentation --------------------- All options are now documented in the smb.conf man page we believe. Much work has been done by Samba Team members to improve the quality and quantity of the Samba documentation. Many bugfixes and improvements ------------------------------>From around the 'net around the world. Manythanks to everyone who contributed. Commercial thanks. ------------------ Thanks to Cisco for the new netbios alias code support. Thanks to Silicon Graphics for the help with the cross subnet browsing and NetBench code. Thanks to Whistle for funding one of the Samba Team members. Reporting bugs -------------- The Samba Team believes that this is a stable production release, but all software has bugs. If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email a report to : samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au Stating the version number of Samba that you are running, and *full details* of the steps we need to reproduce the problem. As always, all bugs are our responsibility. Regards, The Samba Team.