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In particular this commit focuses on:
The guts of the moving about inside passdb.
While these changes have been mildly tested, and are pretty small, any
assistance in this is appreciated.
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These changes allow for the introduction of a large dose of 'const' to
the Samba tree.
There are a number of good reasons to do this:
- I want to allow the SAM_ACCOUNT structure to move from wasteful
pstrings and fstrings to allocated strings. We can't do that if
people are modifying these outputs, as they may well make
assumptions about getting pstrings and fstrings
- I want --with-pam_smbpass to compile with a slightly sane
volume of warnings, currently its pretty bad, even in 2.2
where is compiles at all.
- Tridge assures me that he no longer opposes 'const religion'
based on the ability to #define const the problem away.
- Changed Get_Pwnam(x,y) into two variants (so that the const
parameter can work correctly): - Get_Pwnam(const x) and
Get_Pwnam_Modify(x).
- Reworked smbd/chgpasswd.c to work with these mods, passing
around a 'struct passwd' rather than the modified username
passdb/
- Kill off disp_info stuff, it isn't used any more - Kill off
support for writing to the old smbpasswd format, it isn't relevent
to Samba 3.0
- Move around and modify the pdb_...() helper functions, adding
one that sets the last changed time to 'now' and that sets the
must change time appropriately.
- Remove the ugly forced update of the LCT- value in
pdb_smbpasswd. - Remove the implicit modification of the ACB
flags when both NT and LM passwords are set.
- Removed substation in pdb_getsampwnam output, as a single
password change will render them inoperable in any case (they
will be substituted and stored)
- Added a default RID to the init_sam_from_pw() function, based on
our rid algorithm.
- Added checks that an smbpasswd stored user has a uid-based RID.
- Fail to store tdb based users without a RID
lib/
- Change the substituion code to use global_myname if there is
no connection (and therefore no called name) at the present time.
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| WHATSNEW.txt | ||
This is version 2.0.X of Samba, the free SMB and CIFS client and
server for unix and other operating systems. Samba is maintained by
the Samba Team, who support the original author, Andrew Tridgell.
>>>> Please read THE WHOLE of this file as it gives important information
>>>> about the configuration and use of Samba.
NOTE: Installation instructions may be found in
docs/textdocs/UNIX_INSTALL.txt
This software is freely distributable under the GNU public license, a
copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
called COPYING).
WHAT IS SMB?
============
This is a big question.
The very short answer is that it is the protocol by which a lot of
PC-related machines share files and printers and other informatiuon
such as lists of available files and printers. Operating systems that
support this natively include Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux and add on
packages that achieve the same thing are available for DOS, Windows,
VMS, Unix of all kinds, MVS, and more. Apple Macs and some Web Browsers
can speak this protocol as well. Alternatives to SMB include
Netware, NFS, Appletalk, Banyan Vines, Decnet etc; many of these have
advantages but none are both public specifications and widely
implemented in desktop machines by default.
The Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) is what the new SMB initiative
is called. For details watch http://samba.org/cifs.
WHY DO PEOPLE WANT TO USE SMB?
==============================
1. Many people want to integrate their Microsoft or IBM style desktop
machines with their Unix or VMS (etc) servers.
2. Others want to integrate their Microsoft (etc) servers with Unix
or VMS (etc) servers. This is a different problem to integrating
desktop clients.
3. Others want to replace protocols like NFS, DecNet and Novell NCP,
especially when used with PCs.
WHAT CAN SAMBA DO?
==================
Here is a very short list of what samba includes, and what it does. For
many networks this can be simply summarised by "Samba provides a complete
replacement for Windows NT, Warp, NFS or Netware servers."
- a SMB server, to provide Windows NT and LAN Manager-style file and print
services to SMB clients such as Windows 95, Warp Server, smbfs and others.
- a NetBIOS (rfc1001/1002) nameserver, which amongst other things gives
browsing support. Samba can be the master browser on your LAN if you wish.
- a ftp-like SMB client so you can access PC resources (disks and
printers) from unix, Netware and other operating systems
- a tar extension to the client for backing up PCs
- limited command-line tool that supports some of the NT administrative
functionality, which can be used on Samba, NT workstation and NT server.
For a much better overview have a look at the web site at
http://samba.org/samba, and browse the user survey.
Related packages include:
- smbfs, a linux-only filesystem allowing you to mount remote SMB
filesystems from PCs on your linux box. This is included as standard with
Linux 2.0 and later.
- tcpdump-smb, a extension to tcpdump to allow you to investigate SMB
networking problems over netbeui and tcp/ip.
- smblib, a library of smb functions which are designed to make it
easy to smb-ise any particular application. See
ftp://samba.org/pub/samba/smblib.
CONTRIBUTIONS
=============
If you want to contribute to the development of the software then
please join the mailing list. The Samba team accepts patches
(preferably in "diff -u" format, see docs/BUGS.txt for more details)
and are always glad to receive feedback or suggestions to the address
samba-bugs@samba.org. We have recently put a new bug tracking
system into place which should help the throughput quite a lot. You
can also get the Samba sourcecode straight from the CVS tree - see
http://samba.org/cvs.html.
You could also send hardware/software/money/jewelry or pizza
vouchers directly to Andrew. The pizza vouchers would be especially
welcome, in fact there is a special field in the survey for people who
have paid up their pizza :-)
If you like a particular feature then look through the CVS change-log
(on the web at http://samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/samba) and see
who added it, then send them an email.
Remember that free software of this kind lives or dies by the response
we get. If noone tells us they like it then we'll probably move onto
something else. However, as you can see from the user survey quite a lot of
people do seem to like it at the moment :-)
Andrew Tridgell
Email: samba-bugs@samba.org
3 Ballow Crescent
Macgregor, A.C.T.
2615 Australia
Samba Team
Email: samba-bugs@samba.org
MORE INFO
=========
DOCUMENTATION
-------------
There is quite a bit of documentation included with the package,
including man pages, and lots of .txt files with hints and useful
info. This is also available from the web page. There is a growing
collection of information under docs/faq; by the next release expect
this to be the default starting point.
A list of Samba documentation in languages other than English is
available on the web page.
If you would like to help with the documentation (and we _need_ help!)
then have a look at the mailing list samba-docs, archived at
http://lists.samba.org/
MAILING LIST
------------
There is a mailing list for discussion of Samba. To subscribe send
mail to listproc@samba.org with a body of "subscribe samba Your Name"
Please do NOT send this request to the list alias instead.
To send mail to everyone on the list mail to samba@listproc.anu.edu.au
There is also an announcement mailing list where new versions are
announced. To subscribe send mail to listproc@samba.org with a
body of "subscribe samba-announce Your Name". All announcements also
go to the samba list.
For details of other Samba mailing lists and for access to archives, see
http://lists.samba.org/
NEWS GROUP
----------
You might also like to look at the usenet news group
comp.protocols.smb as it often contains lots of useful info and is
frequented by lots of Samba users. The newsgroup was initially setup
by people on the Samba mailing list. It is not, however, exclusive to
Samba, it is a forum for discussing the SMB protocol (which Samba
implements). The samba list is gatewayed to this newsgroup.
WEB SITE
--------
A Samba WWW site has been setup with lots of useful info. Connect to:
http://samba.org/samba/
As well as general information and documentation, this also has searchable
archives of the mailing list and a user survey that shows who else is using
this package. Have you registered with the survey yet? :-)