samba - Dec 2005 - Samba 3.0.20rc2 Available for Download

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=============================================================	                 I
need a good quote.  Anyone got one?
	                                      -- Gerald Carter
=============================================================Release
Announcements
====================
This is a release candidate of the 3.0.21 code base and is
provided for testing purposes only.   While this snapshot
is *not* intended for production servers, we do believe that
this will become the 3.0.21 final release.  Your testing
and feedback is greatly appreciated.  If all goes well, you
should see the final 3.0.21 release within 2 weeks.

Common bugs fixed in 3.0.21 include:

~  o Missing groups in a user's token when logging in via kerberos
~  o Incompatibilities with newer MS Windows hotfixes and
~    embedded OS platforms
~  o Portability and crash bugs.
~  o Performance issues in winbindd.

New features introduced in Samba 3.0.21 include:

~  o Complete NTLMv2 support by consolidating authentication
~    mechanism used at the CIFS and RPC layers.
~  o The capability to manage Unix services using the Win32
~    Service Control API.
~  o The capability to view external Unix log files via the
~    Microsoft Event Viewer.
~  o New libmsrpc share library for application developers.
~  o Rewrite of CIFS oplock implementation.
~  o Performance Counter external daemon.
~  o Winbindd auto-detection query methods when communicating with
~    a domain controller.

===============Download Details
===============
The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed
using GnuPG (ID 157BC95E).  The source code can be downloaded
from:

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

The release notes (WHATSNEW-3-0-21rc2.txt) are available
in the same download directory as the source distribution.

Binary packages are available at

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

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

			--Enjoy
			The Samba Team
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The ongoing saga of The Place We Can't Freakin' Get Samba To Work Even
Though
It Works Everywhere Else...

We're experiencing winbind problems.  Can't authenticate from AD
("Windows
Server 2003") even though:

"getent passwd" works (shows a list of all users including on AD
server).
"getent group" works (shows list of all groups including AD)
"wbinfo -u" works
"wbinfo -n (name-of-AD-user)" works
"wbinfo --user-domgroups=(SID-of-user-derived-from-above-command)"
works....

But nobody seems to be able to authenticate.  Windows prompts them for a 
password, then tells them it failed.  (Also - for some reason we still have 
the problem of "getent passwd (user)" not returning anything.  This
seems to
be perversely intermittent.  About an hour ago it was working with the same 
software.  As were windows logins.)

/var/log/samba/log.winbindd shows:

[2005/12/08 19:17:12, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:request_len_recv(554)
  request_len_recv: Invalid request size received: 1828

repeatedly for each attempt by windows users to connect now.  I've tried 
restarting smbd, nmbd, winbindd...to no avail.

(The occasionally-but-not-usually-works thing here is actually an ongoing 
problem that at this point I fear will precipitate ripping out of the Samba 
box and overwriting it with "Windows".  I have no idea what the
problem is as
similarly configured samba systems at other locations seem to work just 
fine.)

This is SLES 9 on a Dell "Xeon" box, using RPM's grabbed from: 
 http://us5.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/SuSE/pre/x86_64/sles9/

(I also tried the i586 rpm's, just in case.  Same thing.)

Please, I'm begging - can someone tell me what to dig into here?  I'll
be
happy to post configurations, run tests, whatever.  I just don't want to
have
to hear "no, we'll just have to 'buy' Windows because Samba
doesn't
work" (despite all the ones we already HAVE working...it's that kind of
place
here...)
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