Samba 3.0.36 Available for Download

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                   Release Notes for Samba 3.0.36
                           August, 5 2009
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This is the latest bugfix release of the Samba 3.0 series.

Please note, that the 3.0 series will be DISCONTINUED after this release!
There will be neither any bugfix release nor any security release. Updating
to the latest release series is strongly recommended. For more information
on current Samba releases, please see

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba3_Release_Planning


Major enhancements included in Samba 3.0.36 are:

   o Fix Winbind crash on 'getent group' (bug #5906).
   o Excel save operation corrupts file ACLs (bug #4308).
   o Prevent segmentation fault on joining a very long domain name.


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Changes
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Changes since 3.0.35
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o   Michael Adam <obnox@samba.org>
    * BUG 5906: Fix Winbind crash on 'getent group'.
    * BUG 6066: netinet/ip.h present but cannot be compiled on Solaris.


o   Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
    * BUG 4308: Excel save operation corrupts file ACLs.
    * BUG 6099: In order to allow Win7 to connect to a Samba NT style
    * BUG 6279: Fix Winbind crash.
      PDC we set the flags before we know if it's an error or not.
    * Fix logic error in try_chown.
    * Correctly use chroot().
    * Fix bug in processing of open modes in POSIX open.


o   Günther Deschner <gd@samba.org>
    * Don't install the cifs.upcall binary twice.


o   Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
    * BUG 4640: Fix guest mounts in mount-cifs.
    * Fix mount.cifs handling of -V option.


o   Bhaskar Jain (bhajain) <bhajain@cisco.com>
    * Prevent segmentation fault on joining a very long domain name.


o   Günter Kukkukk <linux@kukkukk.com>
    * Don't try and delete a default ACL from a file.


o   Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
    * Add workaround for MS KB932762.


o   Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com>
    * BUG 4370: Clean-up entries in /etc/mtab after unmount.
    * Add fakemount (-f) and nomtab (-n) flags to mount.cifs.


o   Ted Percival <ted.percival@quest.com>
    * Fix a crash during name resolution when log level >= 10
      and libc segfaults if printf is passed NULL for a "%s" arg
     (eg. Solaris).


o   Miguel Suarez <Miguel.Suarez@stratus.com>
    * BUG 6085: Fix build of vfs_default.


o   Yasuma Takeda <yasuma@osstech.co.jp>
    * BUG 6098: When the DNS server is invalid, the ads_find_dc() does not work
      correctly.

Please refer to the original Samba 3.0.35 Release Notes for more details regarding changes in previous releases.