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                  WHATS NEW IN Samba 3.0 alpha21
 th November 2002
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 This is a pre-release of Samba 3.0. This is NOT a stable release.
 Use at your own risk.
 The purpose of this alpha release is to get wider testing of the major
 new pieces of code in the current Samba 3.0 development tree. We have
 officially ceased development on the 2.2.x release of Samba and are
 concentrating on Samba 3.0. To reduce the time before the final Samba 3.0
 release we need as many people as possible to start testing these alpha
 releases, and hopefully giving us some high quality feedback on what needs
 fixing.
 Note that Samba 3.0 is not feature complete yet. There is a more
 coding we have planned, but unless we get what we have done already more
 widely tested we will have a hard time doing a stable release in a
 reasonable time frame.
 Major new features:
 -------------------
 - Active Directory support. This release is able to join a ADS realm
   as a member server and authenticate users using LDAP/kerberos.
 - Unicode support. Samba will now negotiate UNICODE on the wire and
   internally there is now a much better infrastructure for multi-byte
   and UNICODE character sets.
 - New authentication system. The internal authentication system has
   been almost completely rewritten. Most of the changes are internal,
   but the new auth system is also very configurable.
 - new filename mangling system. The filename mangling system has been
   completely rewritten. An internal database now stores mangling maps
   persistently. This needs lots of testing.
 - new "net" command. A new "net" command has been added. It is
   somewhat similar to the "net" command in windows. Eventually we plan
   to replace a bunch of other utilities (such as smbpasswd) with
   subcommands in "net", at the moment only a few things are
   implemented.
 - Samba now negotiates NT-style status32 codes on the wire. This
   improves error handling a lot.
 - better w2k printing support. The support for printing from win2000
   clients has improved greatly.
 Plus lots of other changes!
 Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
 ---------------------------------------
 Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
 joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.openprojects.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.
 Removed Parameters
 ------------------
   * postscript
   * printer driver
   * printer driver location
   * printer driver file
 Added Parameters
 ---------------
   * ldap trust ids
   * acl compatibility
   * mangle prefix
 Modified Parameters
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   * restrict anonymous
   * password server
 Changes in alpha21:
  See cvs log for SAMBA_3_0 for complete details.  There are many
  smaller numerous changes that would clutter the release notes.
 )  Numerous documentation updates including new Samba FAQ
 )  Fixed logic error in checking wins server lists
 )  Added more Solaris sendfile checks
 )  Added --with-ldapsam for compatibility with 2.2.x Samba/LDAP setups
 )  Add new client side support the Win2k LSARPC UUID in rpcbinds
     Detect a native mode Win2k DC when in "security = domain"
 )  Include Domain Local Groups in listing when a member of a native
     mode Win2k domain
 )  Fix ACL inheritance problem
 )  Register <0x1c> name on unicast subnet
 )  Removed stat() call in lp_add_home()
 ) Change default of max_xmit to match W2K. Ensure NT negprot uses it
 ) Merge the new ACL mapping code from Andreas Gruenbacher
 ) Removed make_printerdef tool from build
 ) Fix fd leak on printer queue tdb's
 ) Better error/status loggin in both the pam_winbind client and
     winbindd_pam
 ) Fix fd leak with kernel change notify
 ) Fix slowdown because of enumerating all print queues on every smbd startup
 ) Fix --set-auth-user command to delete entries from the secrets file
     when an empty username/password is passed on the command line
 ) Added --get-auth-user to wbinfo for displaying account information
     used to enumerate users and groups
 ) Numerous updates for 'net rpc vampire' to migrate from an NT 4.0 Domain
 ) Merge of scalable printing code from APP_HEAD
 ) Numerous changes the passdb layer
 ) More work on printer publishing in Active Directory
 ) Enable "make modules" to build VFS libraries
 ) Enable print notify messages on printer attributes from smbcontrol
 ) Enable auto lookup of domain controllers when adding '*' to
     "password server" parameter.  Allows to have preferred list
     of DC's, but not authoritative (e.g. password server = DC1 DC2 *)
                  ===============================
 Changes in older alpha releases follow:
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 Changes in alpha20:
 )   Rework the 'guest account gets RID 501' code again...
 )   Change to use NT-based session key negotiated for Win2k SPNEGO
 )   Support printer data registry keys other than the default
      PrinterDriverData
 )   Moved internal printerdata to REGISTRY_VALUE object
 )   Corrected bug in dependentfiles list of DRIVER_INFO_3
 )   fixed logic bug in blocking locks code
 )   Updated registry api code to work with new printer data key
      support
 )   Added vfstest tool
 )   round lock timeouts in lockingX upwards to multiples of 1 second
 )  Fixed bugs in Printer Change Notify code
 )  added a 'net ads lookup' command that does a CLDAP NetLogon
      query to a win2000 server
 )  Added script to find undocumented smb.conf parameters
 )  Added missing parameters to smb.conf(5)
 )  receive & parse main CLDAP reply from win2k server
 )  removed "admin log" & "alternate permissions" parameters from smb.conf
 )  added a generic print_guid utility, and get the byte order handing
 )  fixed memory corruption in cli_full_connection()
 )  remove unused 'max packet' and 'packet size' options
 )  add support for the "value,OID" format described in MSDN for Printer
      Data values
 )  moves NT_TOKEN generation into our authentication code
 )  Update documentation build system
 )  Several fixes for IRIX compiler
 )  Correctly handle "max data count" value in smb transacts
 )  Fix for permissions error when adding/modifying using a Print
      server handle
 )  Fix pam_smbpass to always check the return value of pdb_getsampwnam()
 )  Use the 'init' flag to determine if the UID is set, rather than testing
      the uid for -1
 )  Cope with non-unix accounts ) we just won't get the groups for those users
 )  Add 'net rpc getsid' to fetch the PDC's SID into the local secrets.tdb.
      Print domain SID on 'net rpc info'
 )  don't use lp_passwd_file() to retrieve NIS domain name, but use location
      instead
 )  Various POSIX compatibility fixes
 )  Show only non-default values in testparm
 )  Fix longstanding bug in Win2k clients by clearing the shortname
      buffer before returning ascii short name.
 )  Add example backtrace script
 )  Added NETLOGON NetServerAuthenticate3 include and parser file
 )  fix for difference in strsep and strtok semantics in nmbd
 )  Ensure we don't change to a user that we can't get an NT_TOKEN for
 )  Put back in BDC support in set_server_role()
 )  added a 'net rpc samdump' command for dumping the whole sam via
      samsync operations (as a BDC)
 )  don't use spnego in the client unless enabled in smb.conf
 )  Added some new delta types discovered by Ronnie from ethereal
 )  Cope with negative cache dns entries better
 )  do not expose special files, only files, directories and links
 )  attempts to simplify Samba's external lib dependencies
 )  support non-root-mode systems without getgrouplist()
 )  Some fixes for SMB signing
 )  Pass the object name down to the enum_printers client rpc
 )  add the netatalk VFS module
 )  Ensure we have at least smb_size bytes before processing a packet
 )  Allow us to "lock" printer tdb entries in memory to stop them being
      re-used as cache
 )  fix 2 byte alignment/offset bug that prevented Win2k/XP clients
      from receiving all the printer data in EnumPrinterDataEx()
 )  Add option to compile new sam system can be enabled with the
      configure option --with-sam
 )  Added SGML/DocBook version of developer oriented docs to build process
 )  Return correct FILE_SUPERSEDED response
 )  Added example sam module (skeleton)
 )  Add plugin support for the sam system (based on passdb code)
 )  show builtin groups in samdump
 )  Adding samtest utility used to test sam backends
 )  fix connecting to a BDC when the PDC is down but in WINS and no bcast
      can be used to find a BDC
 )  convert the LDAP/SASL code to use GSS-SPNEGO if possible
 )  added cli_net_auth_3 client code
 )  merge of phant0m key fix from APP_HEAD
 )  allow rpcclient's samlogon command to use cli_net_3()
 )  Added attribute specific OPEN tests
 )  Fix bug with stat mode open being done on read-only open with
      truncate
 )  Add lots of const casts to function parameters
 )  Implemented some more client side spoolss functions
 )  usrmgr expects UNICODE as ProductType
 )  Change JOB_INFO_CTR to return a pointer to an array rather than array of
      pointers in client code
 )  Various NTLMSSP fixes
 )  fixed crash bug in cli_connection code
 )  DeletePrinterDriver[Ex]() fixes from APP_HEAD
 )  remove some inet_aton() calls for portability
 )  Set default ACB attributes on 'unixsam' accounts
 )  Add bcast_msg_flags to connection struct
 )  aggregate change notify events in the smbd sender and when transmitting
 )  Added better error code on out of space in printer spool directory
 )  Removed total jobs check ) not applicable any more
 )  fixed bug in share enumeration RPC code
 )  extend the ADS_STATUS system to include NTSTATUS
 )  commit trusted domain patch n+3
 )  remove block VFS module
 )  restrict readline headers to readline.c
 )  merge of various recycle bin VFS patches
 )  Winbind client-side cleanups
 )  change parametric option name to vfs_recycle_bin it is more
      sane and do not pollute standard options namespace too much
 )  added --enable-python configure option for building the samba-python
      unit tests
 )  correct trans2 bugs in client for enumerating files/directories
 )  Re-add OS/2 EA error codes
 )  Added patch for required attributes in directory listings to reply code
 )  Fix browse synchronization bug by noticing that W2K DMB's return empty
      NetServerEnum2 on port 445, but not on port 139
 )  Fix semantics of AbortPrinter() spoolss call in server code
 )  Ensure we've failed a lock with a lock denied message before automatically
      pushing it onto the blocking queue
 )  Added experimental sendfile code
 )  Initialize user_rid value in WINBIND_USERINFO structure returned by
      the rpc version of query_user()
 )  added gencache implementation
 )  Merge the cli_shutdown change from 2_2
 )  Fixes for DeletePrinterDriverEx()
 )  Fixed alignment error in spoolss code
 )  Changed Major/Minor version info reported to Server Manager to 4.9
 )  Applied new display mode FLAGS for SWAT
 ) Update to add DEVELOPER option to more parameters
 ) Added --with-ads option, defaults to yes
 ) Added --with-ldap option to configure
 ) Add clock skew handling to our kerberos code
 ) correct race condition in password change code for out machine account
      when a member of a domain
 ) First implementation for 'net rpc vampire'
 ) store current handle's Device Mode with print job
 ) Move functionality to check whether entries for lp_workgroup() and
      "BUILTIN" exist and add them if necessary from check_correct_backend_entries
      into sam_context_check_default_backends
 ) allow --with-krb5 to override the location of the kerberos libs on
     redhat
 ) unlink spool file after submitting print job when using CUPS api
 ) Add framework for samtest commands
 ) Add the ability to view/set the current local domain SIDs to net command
 ) When creating a group you have to take care of the fact that the
      underlying unix might not like the group name
 ) Don't uppercase the username and domain in a session setup
 ) Merge of "profile acls" code from SAMBA_2_2
 ) Check for existing of security descriptor in PRINTER_INFO_2 structure
      in rpc client code
 ) Move to common user token debugging, and ensure we always print both the
      NT_TOKEN and the unix credentials
 ) If adding a user to ldap, make sure we have the 'account' structural class,
      or else we can't add to OpenLDAP 2.1
 ) Kill of Get_Pwnam_Modify and smb_getpwnam()
 ) add a 'ldap passwd sync' option to smb.conf
 ) Whenever we deal with adding machine/trusted domain accounts, always reset
      the flag to what we expect
 ) Fix the circular dependency that was preventing 'domain master = auto' (the
      default) from working
 ) move all the passdb internal interface to NTSTATUS
 ) to expand % values (ie we go \\%L\%U -> \\server\user, we don't want to
      store \\server\user back) and to correctly notice 'not set' compared to 'null
      string' etc.
 ) get some more of our access control bits right on the SAMR pipe
 ) Add -r parameter to smbgroupedit. With -r you can manually choose
      a rid
 Changes in alpha19
 )  Virtual registry framework with printing hooks (jerry)
 )  Heavy registry updates (jerry)
 )  Use 850 as the default DOS character set in smb.conf (tpot)
 )  printer fixes ) removed encoding of queueid in job number (jra)
 )  A lot of small fixes (jra)
 )  Don't crash on setfileinfo on printer fsp(jra)
 )  fixed line buffer mode in XFILE(jra)
 )  update samba.schema from 2.2 (jerry,idra)
 )  Fix problem with oplock breaks and win2k )
     noticed by Lev Iserovich <lev@ciprico.com> (jra)
 ) Update smbgroupedit to document -d ) thanks to metze (abartlet)
 ) Support weird behaviour used by win9x pass-through auth (abartlet,tpot)
 ) Support for duplicating stderr in log files (abartlet)
 ) Move startup time initialisation to server.c (abartlet)
 ) *A lot* of fixes and cleanups (abartlet)
 ) Fix up compiler warnings (abartlet)
 ) Few small fixes (tpot)
 ) Renamed new_cli_netlogon_* -> cli_netlogon_* (tpot)
 ) Fixed segfault in net time when host is unavailable (tridge)
 ) Ensure to be root when opening printer backend tdb (jra)
 ) Merges from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot,jerry)
 ) configure updates (tridge)
 ) getgrouplist() updates (tridge)
 ) Support for pdbedit to query account policy values (abartlet)
 ) Allow one to create trusting domain account using smbpasswd (mimir,abartlet)
 ) 'Net rpc trustdom list' (mimir, abartlet)
 ) Fix fallback to anonymous connection (mimir, abartlet)
 ) Fix for pdb_ldap and OpenLDAP 2.1
 ) Added support in swat to determine whether winbind is running (idra)
 ) Add 'hide unwritable' option (idra)
 ) Correct pickup of [homes] share after subsequent session setups (abartlet)
 ) Update rebind code in pdb_ldap (abartlet)
 ) Add some info levels to RPC srvsvc code )
    thanks to Nigel Williams" <nigel@veritas.com> (abartlet)
 ) Small doc fixes (tridge)
 ) good security patch from Timothy.Sell@unisys.com (tridge)
 ) fix minor nits in nmbd from adtam@cup.hp.com (tridge)
 ) make sure async dns nmbd child dies (tridge)
 ) interim fix for nmbd not registering DOMAIN#1b (tridge)
 ) fix for smbtar filename matching (tridge)
 ) Better quote handling in smb.conf (abartlet)
 ) Support browsers setting multiple languages in swat (idra)
 ) Changed str_list_make to be able to use a different separator string (idra)
 ) Samsync support to insert account info into the pdb (tpot)
 ) Don't hide unwritable dirs when 'hide unwritable' is enabled )
     suggested by Alexander Oswald <oswald@is.haw-hamburg.de> (idra)
 ) Fix for handling sparse files in smbd (tridge)
 ) Merges from 2_2 (jerry)
 ) Minor printer fixes (jerry)
 ) Add some checks to SID lookup code (abartlet)
 ) Cascaded VFS (Alexander Bokovoy, idra)
 ) Some netbios-less connections support in ADS mode (tridge)
 ) ADS tweaks (tridge)
 ) Fix plaintext passwords with win2k (tridge)
 ) 'net ads info' reports IP of LDAP server (tridge)
 ) Add some more RPC functions (jmcd)
 ) Add 'smb ports = ' option (tridge)
 ) Various small fixes (tridge)
 ) Passdb security checks (abartlet)
 ) Large winbind updates (abartlet)
 ) Moved rpc client routines from libsmb to rpc_client (tpot)
 ) Few nmbd fixes (jmcd)
 ) Fix swat to handle new debug level code (idra)
 ) Fix name length bug in namequeries (tridge)
 ) Don't have client binaries depend on libs they don't use )
    patch from Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> (abartlet)
 ) Printing change notification (merged from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry)
 ) fix delete printer driver (from HEAD_APPLIANCE) (jerry)
 ) Added pdb_xml and pdb_mysql (jelmer)
 ) Update pdb_test (jelmer)
 ) Fix security issues with %m (abartlet)
 ) Support for service joins from win2k AND use SPNEGO (jmcd)
 ) pdbedit -i and -e fix, add -b (idra)
 ) textdocs converted to sgml (jelmer, jerry)
 ) Merge netbios namecache code from APPLIANCE_HEAD (tpot)
 ) Fix segs in new NTLMSSP code (abartlet)
 ) Always make guest rid 501 (abartlet)

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