Samba 2.2.2 has just been released by the Samba Team. This version of Samba provides significant improvement over Samba2.2.1a, especially in terms of performance. The Samba Team highly recommends that all production server upgrade to this release of Samba as it contains all current bug fixes . Upgrading to this version of Samba from version 2.2.1a will not require any configuration changes to e-smith/SME servers.
The RPM package can be found at: ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/Binary_Packages/redhat/RPMS/7.1/samba-2.2.2-20 011013.i386.rpm Release notes from the Samba Team follow: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHATS NEW IN Samba 2.2.2: 13th October 2001 =========================================== This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the version that all production Samba servers should be running for all current bug-fixes. There are several important oplock logic bugs that have been fixed in this release, so an upgrade is recommended. New daemon included - winbindd ------------------------------ Samba 2.2.2 is the first release to include the winbind daemon. This code allows UNIX systems that implement the name service switch (nss) to be entered into a Windows NT/2000 domain and use the Domain controller for all user and group enumeration. This allows a Samba server added to a Windows domain to serve file and print services with *NO* local users needed in /etc/passwd and /etc/group - all users and groups are read directly from the Windows domain controller. In addition with pam_winbind which allows a PAM enabled UNIX system to use a Windows domain for authentication service this allows single sign on and account control across UNIX and Windows systems. The current version of winbindd shipped in 2.2.2 does have some memory leaks, which will be addressed for the next Samba release, so it is advisable to monitor the winbind process. This code is being used in production by several vendors, so the leaks are managable. In addition, this version of winbind does not work correctly against a Samba PDC, due to some missing calls on the PDC side. These problems are being addressed for the next Samba release, but it was thought better to release the code now rather than delay the main Samba code to match the winbind release schedule. For more information on using winbind, see the man pages for winbindd and wbinfo. Note that winbindd is not installed by default. New/Changed parameters in 2.2.2 ------------------------------- For more information on these parameters, see the man pages for smb.conf. Added/changed parameters. ------------------------- strict allocate Causes Samba not to create UNIX 'sparse' files, but to follow the Windows behaviour of always allocating on-disk space. use mmap Set to 'on' by default, only set to 'off' on HPUX 11.x or below or other UNIX systems that don't have coherent mmap/read-write internal caches. You should not need to set this parameter. nt acl support This parameter has been changed to a per-share option, and is very useful in enabling Windows 2000 SP2 to load/save profiles from a Samba share. New printing parameters. ------------------------ disable spoolss Setting this parameter causes Samba to go back to the old 2.0.x LANMAN printing behaviour, for people who wish to disable the new SPOOLSS pipe. use client driver Causes Windows NT/2000 clients to need have a local printer driver installed and to treat the printer as local. New LDAP parameters. -------------------- Samba 2.2.2 contains new code to maintain a Samba SAM database on a remote LDAP server. These parameters have been added as part of this code. These parameters are only available when Samba has been compiled with the --with-ldapsam option. ldap admin dn ldap ssl New SSL parameters. ------------------- The SSL support in Samba has been fixed. These new parameters are part of the changes added. These parameters are only available when Samba has been compiled with the --with-ssl option. Please see the smb.conf man page for details. ssl egd socket ssl entropy file ssl entropy bytes New winbindd parameters. ------------------------ These parameters are used by winbindd. See the man page for winbindd for details. winbind separator winbind uid winbind gid winbind cache time winbind enum users winbind enum groups template homedir template shell Removed parameters. ------------------- share modes ldap root ldap root passwd New Documentation. ------------------ Some new README's have been added in the docs/ directory. These cover using roving profiles with Windows 2000 SP2 (docs/README.Win2kSP2), and how to use Samba to help prevent Windows virus spread (docs/README.Win32-Viruses). Quota problems on a Linux 2.4 kernel. ------------------------------------- Currently the quota interfaces have diverged between the Linus 2.4.x kernels and the Alan Cox 2.4.x kernels (the Alan Cox varients are shipped with RedHat). Running quota-enabled Samba compiled on an Alan Cox kernel works correctly on an Alan Cox kernel (the one shipped by default with RedHat 7.x) but fails on a Linus kernel. This is a mess, and hopefully Alan and Linus will sort it out soon. In the meantime we need to ship..... Changes in 2.2.2 ----------------- 1). mmap tdb code disabled on HPUX. This should prevent the reports of tdb corruption on HUPX. 2). Large file support set to off in Solaris 5.5 and below. 3). Better CUPS detection. 4). New SAM (password database) backends - smbpasswd (traditional), LDAP, NIS+ and Samba TDB. 5). Quota fixups on Linux. 6). libsmbclient stand-alone code added. Can be built as a shared library under Linux. 7). Tru64 ACL suppport added. 8). winbindd option added. 9). Realloc fail tidyup fixes all over the code. 10). Large improvement in hash table code efficiency - would be found with large stat caches. 11). Error code consistency improved (still needs more work). 12). Profile shared memory support added to nmbd. 13). New Windows 2000/NT passthrough info levels added. 14). readraw/writeraw code rewritten - many bugs fixed. 15). UNIX password sync (non pam) code fixed, use correct wildcard matcher. 16). Reverse DNS lookup avoided on socket open. 17). Bug preventing nmbd re-registering names on WINS server timeout fixed. 18). Zero length byte range lock code added. Much closer to Windows semantics. 19). Alignment fault fixes for Linux/Alpha. 20). Error checking on tdb returns vastly improved. 21). Handling of delete on close fixed. No longer possible to leave 'dead' file entries. 22). Handling of oplock break failure cleanups improved. Should not be able to leave 'dead' entries. 23). Fix handling of errors trying to set 64 bit locks on 32 bit NFS mounts. 24). Misc. MS-DFS code fixes. 25). Ignore logon packets if not a PDC (needed for PDC/BDC failover). 26). winbind pam module added. 27). Order N^^2 enumeration of printers problem fixed. 28). Password backend database code re-ordered to allow different password backends (at compile time currently). 29). Improved print driver version detection for Windows 2000. 30). Driver DEVMODE initialization fixes. 31). Improved SYSV print parse code. 32). Fixed enumeration of large numbers of users/groups from Windows clients. Code still too slow. 33). Fix for buggy NetApp RPC pipe clients. 34). Fix for NT sending multiple SetPrinterDataEx calls. 35). Fix for logic bug where smbd could delay oplock break request messages from other smbd daemons whilst client kept us busy. 36). Fix deadlock problem with connections tdb on enumeration. 37). Fixes for setting/getting NT ACLs - improved POSIX mapping both ways. 38). Removed unused readbmpx/writebmpx code. 39). Attempt to fix Linux 2.4.x quota mess. 40). Improved ctemp code for Windows 2000 compatibilty. 41). Finally understood difference between set EOF and set allocation requests. Added strict allocate parameter to help. 42). Correctly return name types on name to SID lookups. 43). tdb spinlock code update. 44). Use pread/pwrite on systems that have it to fix race condition in tdb code. Older release notes for Samba 2.2.x follow. ----- Original Message ----- From: Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: e-smith-devinfo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 11:48 AM Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] driver disk prompt at install > > I was following this General discussion thread: > > http://www.e-smith.org/bboard//read.php?f=1&i=8744&t=8744 > > which talks about parameters you can add at boot/install time. There is > a parameter that will prompt the installer to ask for a driver disk at > install time. Where you are initially prompted to enter 'accept', simply > enter 'accept dd'. I've tested and can confirm this prompts the > installer to ask for a driver disk :) > > I do not have any non-standard hardware to test this any further. Any > volunteers? > > This certainly would be a valuable bonus if this worked for adding > drivers for non-standard hardware (IDE/SCSI RAID controllers, network > cards etc) at install time. > > Regards, > > -- > Darrell May > DMC NETSOURCED.COM > http://netsourced.com > http://myEZserver.com > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
