Download Samba 3.5.9

Samba runs on Unix, BSD and Linux machines and is able to provide file and printer services according to the cifs protocol to Windows clients. For documentation on the how and what of Samba you can take a look at this page. The developers released a new version a few days ago with 3.5.9 as the version number. The corresponding list of changes for this release is as follows:

Release Notes for Samba 3.5.9

This is the latest stable release of Samba 3.5. Major enhancements in Samba 3.5.9 include:

• Sgid bit lost on folder rename (bug #7996).
• ACL can get lost when files are being renamed (bug #7987).
• Respect “allow trusted domains = no” in Winbind (bug #6966).
• Samba now follows Windows behavior as a kerberos client, requesting a CIFS/ticket (bug #7893).

New Kerberos behaviour
A new parameter ‘client use spnego principal’ defaults to ‘no’ and means Samba will use CIFS/hostname to obtain a kerberos ticket, acting more like Windows when using Kerberos against a CIFS server in smbclient, Winbind and other Samba client tools. This will change which servers we will successfully negotiate Kerberos connections to. This is due to Samba no longer trusting a server-provided hint which is not available from Windows 2008 or later. For correct operation with all clients, all aliases for a server should be recorded as a as a servicePrincipalName on the server’s record in AD.

Changes since 3.5.8:

• BUG 6911: Kerberos authentication from Vista to Samba fails when security blob size is greater than 16 kB.
• BUG 7080: Quota only shown when logged as root.
• BUG 7528: Fix Solaris with NIS autohome.
• BUG 7987: ACL can get lost when files are being renamed.
• BUG 7996: sgid bit lost on folder rename.
• BUG 8040: Fix ‘smbclient’ segfaults when a Cyrillic netbios name or workgroup is configured.
• BUG 8072: Fix panic in create_file_acl_common.
• BUG 8038: Fix is_myname_or_ipaddr() to be robust against strange DNS setups.
• BUG 8083: “inherit owner = yes” doesn’t interact correctly with vfs_acl_xattr or vfs_acl_tdb module.
• BUG 8088: Fix segfault in rpccli_samr_chng_pswd_auth_crap if any input blobs are null.
• BUG 8111: CIFS VFS: Fix unexpected error on SMB posix open.
• BUG 8157: Fix parsing CUPS printcap files in std_pcap_cache_reload().
• BUG 8163: Fix our asn.1 parser to handle negative numbers.
• BUG 8211: “inherit owner = yes” doesn’t interact correctly with “inherit permissions = yes”.
• BUG 8008: Fix a segfault in the krb5 locator plugin.
• BUG 8012: Use getgrset() instead of initgroups() + getgroups() when getgrouplist() is not defined.
• BUG 8031: Convert gpfs:sharemodes and gpfs:leases parameters from a global setting to a per share setting.
• BUG 7893: Don’t ever ask for machine$principals as a target.
• BUG 8074: Fix debug message.
• BUG 6966: Respect “allow trusted domains = no” in Winbind.
• BUG 8047: Fix mdns registration if “interfaces=” is used.
• BUG 7993: Make sure we don’t crash when publishing a single printer.
• BUG 8085: Fix incorrect timeout handling in ncacn_ip_tcp client code.
• BUG 8132: Fix filling printers location field when using CUPS.
• BUG 7836: Make newly added printers visible to clients.
• BUG 7994: Use print cap IDL for IPC.
• BUG 7825: Fix GNU ld version detection with old gcc releases.
• BUG 8033: Add explicit configure option whether to enable dmapi support or not.
• BUG 8099: setpwent() actually does endpwent() on FreeBSD.
• BUG 8009: Fix getting username in ‘net rap session’.
• BUG 8011: Fix memory corruption in shadow_copy2.
• BUG 8016: Fix gpfs_get_xattr.
• BUG 8042: File creation on OS/X.
• BUG 8054: Winbind cache stores/retrieves wrong sizes for 16-bit ints.
• BUG 8066: Fix wrong output in ‘smbget’.
• BUG 8087: Fix wbcChangeUserPasswordEx in RESPONSE mode.
• BUG 8010: Fix inode generation so nautilus can count total dir size correctly.
• BUG 6364: Pull realm from supplied username on libnet join.
• BUG 8166: Don’t lockout users when offline.
• BUG 7383: Normalize IPv4 mapped IPv6 addresses in both directions.
• BUG 8034: SEC_STD_DELETE is always granted to the owner of a file.
• BUG 8055: Can’t see Parts of DFS CIFS share.
• BUG 7610: winbindd_cache.tdb grows too large when scaled.
• BUG 6762: Fix ctdb on gpfs ​​error with MS Office.