[Samba] [Announce] Samba 3.6.0pre1 Available for Download
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From: Karolin Seeger on 28 Jul 2010 07:20 Release Announcements --------------------- This is the first preview release of Samba 3.6. This is *not* intended for production environments and is designed for testing purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting system at https://bugzilla.samba.org/. Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.0 include: SMB2 support ------------ SMB2 support in 3.6.0 is fully functional (with one ommission), and can be enabled by setting: max protocol = SMB2 in the [global] section of your smb.conf and re-starting Samba. All features should work over SMB2 except the modification of user quotas using the Windows quota management tools. As this is the first release containing what we consider to be a fully featured SMB2 protocol, we are not enabling this by default, but encourage users to enable SMB2 and test it. Once we have enough confirmation from Samba users and OEMs that SMB2 support is stable in wide user testing we will enable SMB2 by default in a future Samba release. Internal Winbind passdb changes ------------------------------- Winbind has been changed to use the internal samr and lsa rpc pipe to get local user and group information instead of calling passdb functions. The reason is to use more of our infrastructure and test this infrastructure by using it. With this approach more code in Winbind is shared. New Spoolss code ---------------- The spoolss and the old RAP printing code have been completely overhauled and refactored. All calls from lanman/printing code has been changed to go through the spoolss RPC interfaces, this allows us to keep all checks in one place and avoid special cases in the main printing code. Printing code has been therefore confined within the spoolss code. All the printing code, including the spoolss RPC interfaces has been changed to use the winreg RPC interfaces to store all data. All data has been migrated from custom, arbitrary TDB files to the registry interface. This transition allow us to present correct data to windows client accessing the server registry through the winreg RPC interfaces to query for printer data. Data is served out from a real registry implementation and therefore arguably 100% forward compatible. Migration code from the previous TDB files formats is provided. This code is automatically invoked the first time the new code is run on the server. Although manual migration is also available using the 'net printer migrate' command. These changes not only make all the spoolss code much more closer to "the spec", it also greatly improves our internal testing of both spoolss and winreg interfaces, and reduces overall code duplication. As part of this work, new tests have been also added to increase coverage. This code will also allow, in future, an easy transition to split out the spooling functions into a separate daemon for those OEMs that do not need printing functionality in their appliances, reducing the code footprint. SMB Traffic Analyzer -------------------- Added the new SMB Traffic Analyzer (SMBTA) VFS module protocol 2 featuring encryption, multiple arguments, and easier parseability. A new tool 'smbta-util' has been created to control the encryption behaviour of SMBTA. For compatibility, SMBTA by default operates on version 1. There are programs consuming the data that the module sends. More information can be found on http://holger123.wordpress.com/smb-traffic-analyzer/ ###################################################################### Changes ####### smb.conf changes ---------------- Parameter Name Description Default -------------- ----------- ------- log writeable files on exit New No ctdb locktime warn threshold New 0 smb2 max read New 1048576 smb2 max write New 1048576 smb2 max trans New 1048576 username map cache time New 0 async smb echo handler New No ###################################################################### Reporting bugs & Development Discussion ####################################### Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. If you do report problems then please try to send high quality feedback. If you don't provide vital information to help us track down the problem then you will probably be ignored. All bug reports should be filed under the Samba 3.6 product in the project's Bugzilla database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/). ====================================================================== == Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility. == The Samba Team ====================================================================== ================ Download Details ================ The uncompressed tarballs and patch files have been signed using GnuPG (ID 6568B7EA). The source code can be downloaded from: http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre The release notes are available online at: http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/pre/WHATSNEW-3-6-0pre1.txt Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis from http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/ Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility. (https://bugzilla.samba.org/) --Enjoy The Samba Team -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba |