The Samba Team is pleased to announce Samba 2.0.1.
This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the
version that all production Samba servers should be running
for all current bug-fixes. Due to a couple of smbd crash
bugs that were found in Samba 2.0.0 it is recommened
all sites using Samba 2.0.0 upgrade to this release.
It may be fetched via ftp from :
ftp://<samba.org mirror site>/pub/samba/samba-2.0.1.tar.gz
Or just follow the link on the main page of
your nearest http://samba.org mirror.
Binary packages for supported systems will be made available
within a short time. A separate announcement will be made
for the release of these packages.
Offers of binary Samba packages for various systems are
welcome and should be sent to samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au.
If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email
a report to :
samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
Without further ado, here are the release notes.
Regards,
The Samba Team.
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WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.0.1
=======================
This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the
version that all production Samba servers should be running
for all current bug-fixes.
Bugfixes added since 2.0.0
--------------------------
1). Autoconf changes for gcc2.7.x and Solaris 2.5/2.6
2). Autoconf changes to help HPUX configure correctly.
3). Autoconf changes to allow lock directory to be set.
4). Client fix to allow port to be set.
5). clitar fix to send debug messages to stderr.
6). smbmount race condition fix.
7). Fix for bug where trying to browse large numbers of shares
generated an error from an NT client.
8). Wrapper for setgroups for SunOS 4.x
9). Fix for directory deleting failing from multiuser NT.
10). Fix for crash bug if bitmap was full.
11). Fix for Linux genrand where /dev/random could cause
clients to timeout on connect if the entropy pool was
empty.
12). The default PASSWD_CHAT may now be overridden in local.h
13). HPUX printing fixes for default programs.
14). Reverted (erroneous) code in MACHINE.SID generation that
was setting the sid to 0x21 - should be *decimal* 21.
15). Fix for printing to remote machine under SVR4.
16). Fix for chgpasswd wait being interrupted with EINTR.
17). Fix for disk free routine. NT and Win98 now correctly
show greater than 2GB disks.
18). Fix for crash bug in stat cache statistics printing.
19). Fix for filenames ending in .~xx.
20). Fix for access check code wait being interrupted with EINTR.
21). Fix for password changes from "invalid password" to a valid
one setting the account disabled bit.
22). Fix for smbd crash bug in SMBreadraw cache prime code.
23). Fix for overly zealous lock range overflow reporting.
24). Fix for large disk disk free reporting (NT SMB code).
25). Fix for NT failing to truncate files correctly.
26). Fix for smbd crash bug with SMBcancel calls.
27). Additional -T flag to nmblookup to do reverse DNS on addresses.
28). SWAT fix to start/stop smbd/nmbd correctly.
Major changes in Samba 2.0
--------------------------
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.
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.
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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
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If you have problems, or think you have found a bug please email
a report to :
samba-bugs@samba.org
As always, all bugs are our responsibility.
Regards,
The Samba Team.
