Samba 3.2.4 Available for Download

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                   Release Notes for Samba 3.2.4
			September 18, 2008
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This is a bug fix release of the Samba 3.2 series.

Major bug fixes included in Samba 3.2.4 are:

  o Fix Winbind crashes.
  o Fix changing of machine account passwords.
  o Fix non guest connections to shares when "security = share"
    is used.
  o Fix file write times.


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Changes
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Changes since 3.2.3
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o   Michael Adam 
    * BUG 5590: Fix binary stripping on older OS.
    * BUG 5492: Fix RHEL SPEC file by removing libmsrpc stuff.
    * BUG 5507: Fix several issues in the RHEL SPEC file.
    * Fix linking of cifs.upcall when nscd_flush_cache() is found.


o   Jeremy Allison 
    * BUG 5052: Allow inheritable permissions.
    * BUG 5697: Fix spinning of nmbd in reload_interfaces when only loopback
      has an IPv4 address.
    * BUG 5698: Fix non guest connections to shares when "security = share"
      is used.
    * BUG 5729: Explicitly allow "-valid".
    * BUG 5745: Fix Kerberos authentication with (lib)smbclient.
    * BUG 5751: Fix showing of ACLs on DFS in (lib)smbclient.
    * BUG 5761: Fix opening of mangled directory name (resulted
      'is a stream name').
    * Fix the wcache_invalidate_samlogon calls.
    * Add st_birthtime and friends for accurate create times on *BSD and MacOSX.
    * Clarify usage of "force create mode".
    * Write times code update.


o   Gerald (Jerry) Carter 
    * Fix Winbind crash.
    * idmap_ad: Fix a segfault when calling nss_get_info() with a NULL ads
      structure.


o   Steven Danneman 
    * Fix build warnings.
    * Cleanup of DC enumeration in get_dcs().


o   Günther Deschner 
    * BUG 5710: Fix changing of machine account passwords.
    * Fix several build warnings.
    * Fix invalid sid copy (hit when enumerating sibling domains) in Winbind.


o   James Ding 
    * BUG 5736: Fix Winbind crash bug with trusted domains.


o   Ephi Dror 
    * Correct the netsamlogon_clear_cached_user function.


o   Jeff Layton 
    * Fix handling of MSKRB5 OID in cifs.upcall.
    * Fix build warnings in cifs.upcall.
    * Change default install location of cifs.upcall to EPREFIX/sbin.
    * Enable building of cifs.upcall by default on Linux.


o   Volker Lendecke 
    * BUG 5707: Do proper error handling if the socket is closed.
    * Fix calculation of useable_space for trans2 and nttrans replies.
    * Fix Coverity ID 587.
    * Add mapping of generic bits when setting an NFSv4 ACL.


o   Stefan Metzmacher 
    * Some write time fixes.


o   David Leonard 
    * BUG 4516: No IPv6 on Solaris 2.6.


o   Simo Sorce 
    * BUG 5571: Fix group memeberships in Winbind.


o   Timur 
    * Fix cut and paste error in quota code.
    * Fix display of POSIX ACLs.
    * Fix aio on FreeBSD.


o   Andrew Tridgell 
    * Avoid a race condition in glibc between AIO and setresuid().
    * Add missing become root for AIO operations.
    * Fix logic of tsmsm_sendfile().
    * Fix an errno handling bug that could lead to an infinite loop.
    * Fix handling of arbitrary new PAC types.


o   Qiao Yang 
    * Fix a memleak.


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Reporting bugs & Development Discussion
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Please discuss this release on the samba-technical mailing list or by
joining the #samba-technical IRC channel on irc.freenode.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.  All bug reports should
be filed under the Samba 3.2 product in the project's Bugzilla
database (https://bugzilla.samba.org/).


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== Our Code, Our Bugs, Our Responsibility.
== The Samba Team
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Please refer to the original Samba 3.2.3 Release Notes for more details regarding changes in previous releases.