Quoting David Touzeau (da...@touzeau.eu):
Dear, i cannot compile the latest build with cluster support:
I have tried the debian repository
Any reason for not using the Debian packages?
If you're using Debian stable (squeeze), we have backports of packages
that are in Debian testing. As of
Quoting Bruno CAPELETO (bruno.capel...@free.fr):
I tested with the Win7Pro64bits : same as before with the following :
apt-cache policy samba
samba:
Installé : 2:3.5.11~dfsg-1~bpo60+1
Candidat : 2:3.5.11~dfsg-1~bpo60+1
Table de version :
*** 2:3.5.11~dfsg-1~bpo60+1 0
Hmm, well,
Quoting Bruno CAPELETO (bruno.capel...@free.fr):
apt-cache policy samba cups
cups:
Installé : 1.4.4-7
Candidat : 1.4.4-7
Table de version :
*** 1.4.4-7 0
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
samba:
Installé :
Quoting Aniruddha (mailingdotl...@gmail.com):
What is the recommend method with a samba pdc to give users local
administrator access to their workstations? In Samba4 / Active Directory I
Give them a local account with admin access? But not give that to
their regular account?
Seriously, don't
Quoting Bruno CAPELETO (bruno.capel...@free.fr):
Dear all,
This is the tested config :
- debian squeeze 32bits (samba 3.5.6 / cups 1.4.4)
Which package version?
I (as maintainer of samba packages in Debian) backported a few changes
from further 3.5 versions, some of which related to 64-bit
Quoting alex wallis (alexwallis...@googlemail.com):
Hi list.
I am a complete newbie to samba and not particularly experienced with linux,
can someone please tell me how do I upgrade to samba 3.6.0?
I have managed to upgrade from the default samba 3.4 that the ubuntu
repositories provide to
Quoting John G. Heim (jh...@math.wisc.edu):
I'd prefer to install from debian packages because that will make
the upgrade to samba4 seameless once samba4 is in the stable
repository. If I install from a tarball, its probably not going to
install stuff where debian likes it. But I figure that
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
I suspect that samba4 uploaded yesterday by Jelmer in experimental
will solve this, but this package introduces new binary packages and
is therefore waiting in the NEW queue, for being processed by Debian
ftpmasters (any source package
Quoting j...@hytronix.com (j...@hytronix.com):
Suggestions anyone? I can post whatever portions of an smb.conf that
might be helpful of course.
Upgrade samba?
3.0.29 is really old and issues with supplemental groups ar emaybe not
surprising.
I doubt that anyone can really bring some
Quoting Linda W (sa...@tlinx.org):
I regret misinforming anyone.
I don't think you did..:-)
You mentioned xfs as a very well supported FS and we later were
reminded that its support was developed by Jeremy. I think this is
compliant with XFS is very well supported and one can rely on this
Quoting Dermot (paik...@googlemail.com):
Perhaps I am not understanding you correctly because that runs counter
my experience. The settings in my /etc/ldap/ldap.conf were correct
whereas the ones in /etc/libnss-ldap.conf were not. It was the search
filters from libnss-ldap.conf that were
Less than 12 hours after its release, I have the pleasure to announce
that the Debian experimental archive now carries packages for samba
3.6.0rc2 (please leave some time to autobuilders for packages for all
architectures to be built, though).
Instead of re-explaining how the Debian experimental
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
The fix has been committed in the Debian package SVN. It will reach
Debian unstable, then Ubuntu, when we upload a new release.
A new package fixing this was uploaded in Debian unstable on Sunday
June 5th. Package version is 2:3.5.8~dfsg-5
Quoting Dave Lawrence (d...@daftdroid.com):
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Hash: SHA1
The tdb2 backend for idmap is broken in Ubuntu and presumably debian.
As reported here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/789097
Careful how you read it, the quoted patch is the source of the bug,
Quoting alexander.gardi...@canterbury.ac.uk
(alexander.gardi...@canterbury.ac.uk):
Hello.
I have successfully built and installed samba from source under Ubuntu
Desktop 10.10, but can't find the location of the source header files for
compiling a special VFS that I'd like to use.
Can
Quoting John Maher (j...@chem.umass.edu):
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Hello,
I cannot find anything in the documentation or mailing list that
addresses this oddity.
I've installed Samba Version 3.4.7 on Ubuntu Server 10.04, and I'm
utterly confused by samba's
I have the pleasure to announce that the Debian experimental archive
now carries packages for samba 3.6.0rc1. This happened 53 hours and 26
minutes after Karolin announced the availability of this new
version..:-)
Instead of re-explaining how the Debian experimental archive is
working, please
Direct from SambaXP 2011, I have the pleasure to announce that the
Debian experimental archive now carries packages for samba 3.6.0pre3.
(actually, they were uploaded 1 hour ago and need tomake their way to
mirror and they have to be picked by Debian autobuilder, particularly
if you want packages
Quoting Marco Huang (marco.hu...@auckland.ac.nz):
We are using sernet-samba-3.5.8-27, but I've tried samba/winbind packages
from debian squeeze, same result, and the problem appears on centos5.5 as
well. We've been running these file servers for quite a long time, not sure
if there's any
Quoting Marco Huang (marco.hu...@auckland.ac.nz):
Hi,
We have been running samba file server about 2 years without this problem.
The problem appeared at the same time on our debian and centos servers. Not
sure if it's related to any updates on our windows AD servers.
This seems to be
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
- I get a notice that the domain paassword is expired. I can either
change it or ignore the warning, but:
This was bug #7066. Fixed in 3.5.8.
- the DomB user logon script is not executed
This seems to be bug #6356 though my client
Hello,
I'm one of the maintainers of samba packages in Debian.
As of now, Debian squeeze provides samba 3.5.6. As per Debian policy
wrt updates in the stable releases of the distribution, providing
3.5.8 (and later) is not an option we'll be considering for future
updates. The policy of our
I'm currently building a Samba3-based domain (DomA) that has a trust
relationship with an existing production NT4 domain (DomB).
DomA uses an LDAP backend. The LDAP server is local on the PDC and is
dedicated to such use. DomA runs Samba 3.5.6 on Debian 6.0.
DomB is an old-timer: NT4 domain
Quoting Thomas Stegbauer (tho...@stegbauer.info):
Hi Laurent,
i cant imagine it is a permission problem.
The driver upload runs as root and i added root
Also i added root with
net rpc rights grant cake\domadm SePrintOperatorPrivilege -U cake/root
replaced cake with my domain-name.
Quoting Eckert, Robert D (eck...@indiana.edu):
Greetings,
Can I go directly from 3.4.7 to the new 3.5.8 without installing
any intermediate versions? Or is there a different route I should
follow?
You certainly can upgrade from 3.4.7 to 3.5.8. As usual with Samba,
it's very hard to say
Quoting markus hansen (hansenmar...@gmx.de):
Hi List,
I Upgraded my samba Installation from 3.3.8 (centos packages) to 3.5.8
(sernet packages). Now logging in does not work without providing the domain
any more - before the upgrade it worked. Does someone knows what has changed
in
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org):
Release Announcements
=
Samba 3.5.7, 3.4.12 and 3.3.15 are security releases in order to
address CVE-2011-0719.
Debian addressed these in security updates:
- 2:3.2.5-4lenny14 for Debian lenny
- 2:3.5.6~dfsg-3squeeze1 for
Quoting Miguel Medalha (miguelmeda...@sapo.pt):
On the Samba wiki page Samba3 Release Planning, the following is stated:
Thursday, February 2011 - Planned release date for Samba 3.5.7
Which of the February Thursdays will it be? 10, 17 or 24?
The quoted page resides here:
Quoting Chris Smith (smb...@chrissmith.org):
And I have seen reported instances of Samba issues on Ubuntu being
resolved by avoiding the distro packages and compiling from source.
Hmmm, could be interesting to learn about which ones. Since 2-3 years,
we made great efforts in Debian to avoid
Quoting Chris Smith (smb...@chrissmith.org):
OK, not exactly a samba issue but maybe the Ubuntu maintainer reads
this list and can provide some input.
There is not exactly such thing as the Ubuntu maintainer. As far as
I can tell (with my Debian package maintainer hat), samba packages in
I have recurrent issue with ACLs on a server that's running samba
3.2.15 (this is a Debian lenny server and we're not ready, yet, to
upgrade it...we just upgraded samba from 3.2.5 to 3.2.15+security fixes).
If a foo directory, owned by joe, has joe and jim authorized to
write to it through the
This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.5.
It has just been uploaded to Debian unstable.
Thanks to the strict release policy of the Samba Team (only well
identified bugfixes allowed in the stable version releases), this
updated got pre-approved by the Debian release team.
So, it means
, Steve Langasek, Mathieu Parent, Christian Perrier, Jelmer
Vernooij).
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Quoting Dale Schroeder (d...@briannassaladdressing.com):
After today's Squeeze upgrade from 3.4.8 to 3.5.5, domain logons were
initially broken.
I was fortunate to find Thomas Burkholder's workaround from last June, i.e.
turn off
server signing.
Can anyone explain why server signing
Quoting Rodolfo Barbosa (barbosa.rodo...@lunarconsultoria.com.br):
Guys,
Does the Windows 7 work with a Samba 3.2.5? If it does,
where can I find a documentation about it?
The mention of 3.2.5 makes me think you might be using Debian lenny..:-)
In such case, you probably want to use
Quoting Gilles (gilles.gana...@free.fr):
Hello
I notice I can modify existing files, but not create/delete. I also
notice that after saving a file I modified, Samba sets its access
rights to 744.
nobody.nogroup owns /var/www, with /var/www/. as 755
Logged on from XP as nobody.
Quoting Gilles (gilles.gana...@free.fr):
It is. This is the Ubuntu package and It Works(tm)..:-)
Apparently, not that well ;-)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1468111
Ah, this upstart thing*that* is a Ubuntu change to the Debian
package. Not my responsibility, then..:-) (at
Quoting Gilles (gilles.gana...@free.fr):
Also tried this, running restart smbd after each addition, to no
avail:
You apparently have a *browsing* problem, so it's likely that nmbd is
more the problem.
===
# cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string =
Quoting Paul Branon (paulbra...@googlemail.com):
I can only interact with the server from the local command line. (I
haven't altered the allow hosts in the config file. I haven't changed
anything) I used to be able to reach it from all the machines on my
network with windows \\10.10.10.1
I haven't run into the problem on Squeeze recently, personally, so it may
have gotten fixed in the last couple of releases. I did have a lenny box
with 3.4.8 from backports that had the problem a couple of days ago, but I
did two today without any problems. I just chalked it up as a fluke and
Quoting Robert LeBlanc (rob...@leblancnet.us):
I have had 'net' not correctly registered on some squeeze machines. Since I
don't use the net command often, I just run net.samba3. I'm sure you could
do an `update-alternatives --config net` as root and choose to use
net.samba3 to restore the
Quoting Marc Schiffbauer (m...@schiffbauer.net):
Now after the upgrade delete operations on files do not work anymore
until a user owns the parent directory or has world write access to
it (windows client (XP SP2) gets a permission denied error).
This is strange because a user can still
Quoting Neil Price (npr...@gibb.co.za):
I hope it is relevant to report this here. The debian lenny samba
3.5.3 packages at http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org have this
problem:
Setting up winbind (2:3.5.3~dfsg-1~unoff50+1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/winbind.postinst: line 16: pam-auth-update:
Quoting Neil Price (npr...@gibb.co.za):
I hope it is relevant to report this here. The debian lenny samba
3.5.3 packages at http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org have this
problem:
It is relevant, yes. Mailing pkg-samba-ma...@lists.alitoh.debian.org
is also an option. Probably a better one as
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
Indeed, I noticed this problem (this is the second time these
remainings from Debian squeeze packages slip to the lenny backports,
official or not)and fixed it in 2:3.5.3~dfsg-1~unoff50+2 packages.
However, as of now, binary packages
Quoting Guy Rouillier (guyr-...@burntmail.com):
Thank you *very* much. That was the problem. Windows 7 now works
with security=user. Ugh. That entry was left over from the initial
smb.conf that Samba provided upon install. I left it in case I
Hmmm. If Ubuntu default smb.conf includes
Quoting Guy Rouillier (guyr-...@burntmail.com):
I have spent many hours researching and trying many different
things, starting with this:
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7. However, I still cannot
get Windows 7 Home Premium to connect to a Samba share using
user-based security. XP
Quoting Jeff Wiegley (je...@csun.edu):
Before we start let's clear up some common misunderstandings: I have
googled for the answer. I have spent the last six hours doing so and trying
various suggestions. Most of these suggestions point to solutions
involving chown or chmod. These are not
Quoting Thomas Gutzler (thomas.gutz...@gmail.com):
Hi,
After upgrading one of my samba servers from ubuntu jaunty (3.3.2) to
karmic (3.4.0) I cannot access the shares any more.
The default for passdb backend changed between these versions (from
smbpasswd to tdbsam) and, as you don't
Quoting Thomas Gutzler (thomas.gutz...@gmail.com):
passdb backend = tdbsam
already set. Yet another setting not listed by testparm.
Ah, because this is the default so it's trimmed by testparm. 3.3.2
testparm would probably have it shown.
So, sorry for the wrong answer.
Are you in position
Quoting Felix Miata (mrma...@earthlink.net):
That's what http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/SC/sc-sambaorg1005.png was supposed to be.
How does the depiction fall short?
Please accept some excuses here. In the next messages, you gave
ecidence of you will to contribute constructively.
Maybe the apparent
Quoting Felix Miata (mrma...@earthlink.net):
Special thanks go to Blackbit [4] for creating the new design,
Special chide to Blackbit for the outcome. :~(
.../...
There are two ways to react after improvements or changes when one has
trouble with them: constructive criticism, given with a
This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.4.
Packages for Debian unstable are available as of May 12th. They're
expected to enter Debian testing in 10 days. Backports for Debian
lenny will follow on backports.org
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So, as a service to our users, I prepared some packages which are now
available from http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org, also known as the
not so official but still quite actively supported backport service of the
samba packaging team of the Debian project (which makes a fairly long
name...).
Quoting Mike Leone (tur...@mike-leone.com):
directories. Even tho Ubuntu 10.04 seems to have the /etc/pam.d files
already configured for samba, I copied over the common-account,
common-auth, common-password, common-session files from the 9.10 server
to the 10.04 server. Did the same with the
Please note that these packages are not (yet) digitally signed, so
apt-get might complain and ask for confirmation. I should improve this
in the future. This is why this mail is currently GPG-signed with the
key I'm using for Debian packaging.
As one of my co-maintainers kindly pointed:
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(please note that this mail is crossposted to 3 lists. No need to CC
me to answers, I read the 3 of them...)
Some users (including me with my professionnal hat) want to use 3.5
versions of samba on production servers running Debian. Of course,
most of the time, these production servers are
Quoting Christian PERRIER (bubu...@debian.org):
(please note that this mail is crossposted to 3 lists. No need to CC
me to answers, I read the 3 of them...)
And one of them was invalid (sigh) as lists.debian.org is not yet
hosting Samba mailing lists..:-)
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Let's see this as my first achievement of SambaXP
(http://www.sambaxp.org).
An official backport of cifs-utils
(http://www.samba.org/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/) is
Quoting Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac (lscarne...@veltrac.com.br):
You can use the backports repo to install samba 3.4 and add Windows
7 machines, also windows Vista machines.
Also note that I may provide unofficial backported packages for samba
3.5 series through
Quoting Gary Dale (garyd...@rogers.com):
Now perhaps I'm missing something, but I have no trouble with users
mounting nfs shares. The idea that users can't mount cifs shares
strikes me as odd and an unnecessary impediment.
How about turning the binary we provide in Debian to setuid on the
Quoting Jeff Layton (jlay...@samba.org):
It's also worthwhile to note that I've recently re-enabled the ability
to run mount.cifs as a setuid root program in the latest cifs-utils
release:
http://linux-cifs.samba.org/cifs-utils/
...you may want to switch to using that instead if you need
Quoting Steve Holdoway (st...@greengecko.co.nz):
Does anyone have experience with the upgrade from 3.2 ( in lenny core )
to the samba provided 3.3 debian packages?
Specifically, I'm looking for a list of gotchas in this process, as I'm
short on machines I can use as test servers...
This is
Quoting Robert LeBlanc (rob...@leblancnet.us):
What is the milestone that will get 3.5 into Debian Squeeze?
We're still in the process of deciding whether we'll go for 3.4.* or
3.5 for squeeze.
There are arguments for both:
- 3.4.* releases are now rock solid and the risk of important issues
Quoting Preller, Markus (markus.prel...@uk-erlangen.de):
Hi,
we upgraded one of our Solaris 10 (SPARC) machines from Samba 3.0.28
to 3.4.7. Symlinks are used within some shares that point to data outside
the original share path.
While this was no problem with Samba 3.0.28 access is denied
Quoting Jeremy Allison (j...@samba.org):
Security problem with Samba on Linux
In Samba releases 3.5.0, 3.4.6 and 3.3.11 new code
was added to fix a problem with Linux asynchronous IO handling.
Situation for Debian:
- Debian stable isn't affected by this
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org):
Release Announcements
=
This is the third release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
Quoting Didier Roques (didier.roq...@brive.unilim.fr):
Hi
i've got a server with lenny installed on it with samba 3.2.5.
I need to use preexec and postexec command into the [netlogon] service
like this
root preexec = /etc/samba/ntlogon -u %U -g %G -o %a -d
/etc/samba/netlogon/ -f
Quoting Didier Roques (didier.roq...@brive.unilim.fr):
Hi
i've got a server with lenny installed on it with samba 3.2.5.
My problem is that the var partition is sometimes full. In fact, if i use
df command I watch the partition full, but if I use du command the
partition is not full.
If i
Quoting Dale Schroeder (d...@briannassaladdressing.com):
Any chance that there will be included in this release, a fix for
the libkrb5-3 1.8 problem with winbind?
Or will that fix have to come from the libkrb5-3 maintainers?
Sam Hartman answered to this by reassigning the relevant bug to the
Quoting Dale Schroeder (d...@briannassaladdressing.com):
On 02/01/2010 12:05 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org):
Release Announcements
=
This is the second release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not*
Debian packages for 3.5.0rc2
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org):
Release Announcements
=
This is the second release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not*
Debian packages for 3.5.0rc2 were uploaded to Debian experimental as
of Sunday Jan 31st.
Many special thanks to Michael Adam for
Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
Referring to the SUBJECT: Where is this leading to a panic
in Samba 3.4, I got lost in the meantime.
I'm afraid I don't know. I was cc:ed on this somewhat mid-thread, and
haven't seen any panics; what I know about is
Quoting Jeremy Allison (j...@samba.org):
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:14:31AM -0600, Dale Schroeder wrote:
This time, it seems to be an ADS specific winbind error.
I have attempted with the current kernel - 2.6.32-trunk-686 and the
previous kernel - 2.6.30-2-686.
What kind of
Dale Schroeder a écrit :
I've suspected that ever since reading Karolin's release notes for
3.4.4. Debian has not yet released 3.4.4
to testing, but I'll gladly try it as soon as it's available. For the
That should happen in about one week, assuming that no dependency chain
is blocking it.
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org):
Release Announcements
=
This is the first release candidate of Samba 3.5. This is *not*
intended for production environments and is designed for testing
purposes only. Please report any defects via the Samba bug reporting
Quoting Michael Lueck (mlu...@lueckdatasystems.com):
Peter Olcott wrote:
I decided to try
Ubuntu. After intallation it took only five minutes of editing the smb.conf
file to make my share fully operational.
:-)
I had been hearing good things about Ubuntu, however I was firmly in the
Quoting Rob Shinn (mor...@tuxedo.darktech.org):
I've used both and the packages themselves are basically the same.
A particular Ubuntu stable release package of Samba is more likely
to be more current than the Debian stable release, but that's a
result of policy differences, not technical
Last year, sometime in December, I wrote:
Please notice that, contrary to what we generally did up to now,
Debian maintainers have not been able to build a package for pre1
before pre2 went out...
This is mostly because we apparently can't build with the packaged
talloc libraries (Debian
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org):
Release Announcements
=
This is the second preview release of Samba 3.5. This is *not*
Please notice that, contrary to what we generally did up to now,
Debian maintainers have not been able to build a package for pre1
before
Quoting Samantha Bandara (hera_...@yahoo.com):
i am new to samba i want install PDC on debian2.6 with xp prop.
Hello Samantha,
I am one of the maintainers of the Samba packages in Debian. Please
note that I am not a Samba developer myself and not necessarily a
Samba expert. Still, we need to
Quoting Karolin:
Release Announcements
=
This is the first stable release of Samba 3.4.
As of yesterday, Samba 3.4.0 is now available in Debian unstable. It
means that the next release of Debian (codename squeeze, due
out...when it's ready, probably around the end of
Quoting Howard Allison (howard.alli...@pva.sozvers.at):
Hi, I just upgraded from 3.0.32 to 3.3.4 on Aix 6.1, and noticed that a
'net view' command from a windows xp workstation fails with a system error
1745. The share works perfectly fine, just the net view command doesn't.
This occurs
Quoting Howard Allison (howard.alli...@pva.sozvers.at):
How is the smb.conf file encoded? Is it UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1?
--
I assume ISO8859-1(In the smitty 'convert flat file' menu UTF-8 isn't an
option for the target - there are a few issues with the utf-8 packages for
AIX 6... they
Quoting Fabio Muzzi (li...@kurgan.org):
I have googled a lot, but I have found no examples of the correct use of
the tdbbackup program.
I am looking for some advice on how to use tdbbackup. I mean, I know I
can simply run tdbbackup *.tdb, but I was looking for in-depth
information on
Hello dear Samba (and hopefully Debian/Ubuntu) users,
Please find here some news from the team that packages Samba for
Debian (and threfore indirectly for Ubuntu).
As some of you might know, Debian 5.0 lenny was released on February
14th.
Samba provided in lenny in the 3.2.5 version plus two
Quoting Karolin Seeger (ksee...@samba.org):
o CVE-2009-0022
In Samba 3.2.0 to 3.2.6, in setups with registry shares enabled,
access to the root filesystem (/) is granted
when connecting to a share called (empty string)
using old versions of smbclient (before 3.0.28).
That will be a short one..:-)
I recently blogged about the status of Debian packages for Samba. My
blog being aggregated on Planet Debian only, that probably escaped
most readers of this list while this could have some interest for some
readers of this list.
So, for news about Debian packages
Quoting Ryan Bair (ryandb...@gmail.com):
Samba should run fine on ARM. Debian even has a package for it.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/arm/samba
I confirm. And I confirm that we're not doing anything hairy for this
to happen.
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Quoting Karolin Seeger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
This is a security release in order to address CVE-2008-4314 (Potential leak
of
arbitrary memory contents).
o CVE-2008-4314
Samba 3.0.29 to 3.2.4 can potentially leak
arbitrary memory contents to malicious
clients.
Debian
This is an update, from the samba package maintainers in Debian, about
the current status of Samba package in the distribution.
In Debian stable (etch), the official samba package is
3.0.24-6etch10, which is a 3.0.24 version with all security
updates that were published after 3.0.24.
In Debian
Quoting Michael Adam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
If I am not completely wrong, this had been decided as well
as follows: A release will reach EOL when the next release
goes into maintenance mode, i.e. when the second next release
comes out. With the aimed release cycle of 6 months, this means
that
Quoting Dennis Clarke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
out of more than just idle curiosity .. how are you going to deliver
Samba? As one package or as eight or nine little broken up packages such
that other packages which have dependencies will need to only install
something small?
I hope you can see
We're doing our best, folks.
3.2.2 packages are ready (working the package wasn't that
straightforward after some binary renaming that happened for cifs
utilities..as well as some (good) changes to libraries installation).
3.2.1 entered testing two days ago and we now need to talk with
Quoting Jeremy Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 03:42:13PM -0700, Daniel L. Miller wrote:
Since all I saw were bugfixes, no feature changes - do we need to
*gently* press the Debian team to use 3.2.2, instead of 3.2.1?
That would help
We're doing our best, folks.
Quoting Christian Perrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
As you wish, but there are several significant bugs
(with printing for one) that have been fixed for the
3.2.1 release.
Yeah. I definitely know that. But, in that case, I'm just one of the
dozens Debian developers and I have no power
(sorry, long replybut it contains many ideas about handling stable
releases both for distros and for upstream software...That answer is
BCC'ed to our package development list)
Quoting Jeremy Allison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
As you wish, but there are several significant bugs
(with printing for
Quoting Charles Marcus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Is that right? Does that mean that if something is completely broken, it
will stay that way for the life of the Debian release?
This is actually one of the reasons I don't use Debian...
Just out of curiosity, and mostly because I *really* don't
Quoting Ryan Novosielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Only security patches.
Is that right? Does that mean that if something is completely broken, it
will stay that way for the life of the Debian release?
s/Only security patches/Only release critical issues
So, something completely broken would
After several months of testing in the experimental branch of
Debian, samba 3.2.0 was uploaded to Debian unstable as of July 20th
2008 and entered the testing branch of the distribution as of August
1st.
As the testing branch is the future stable release of the Debian
distribution, this means
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