Download Samba 3.4.3

A new version was released on Thursday in the stable 3.4 branch of Samba. This program runs on Unix, BSD and Linux servers and is an open source implementation of the SMB/CIFS network protocol. Since version 3, Samba can offer file and print services to Windows clients and is able to act as a Domain Controller. Extensive documentation, including practical how-tos for a slightly older version, can be found at this page are being found. The changelog for this release looks like this:

Changes since 3.4.2

• BUG 6529: Offline files conflict with Vista and Office 2003.
• BUG 6726: SIVAL should have been an SVAL.
• BUG 6769: Fix symlink unlink.
• BUG 6774: smbd crashes if “aio write behind” is set.
• BUG 6776: Fix core dump caused by running overlap Byte Lock test.
• BUG 6781: Fix renaming subfolders in Explorer view.
• BUG 6793: Fix Winbind crash with “INTERNAL ERROR: Signal 6”.
• BUG 6796: Deleting an event context on shutdown can cause smbd to crash.
• BUG 6828: Fix infinite timeout when byte lock held outside of Samba.
• BUG 6829: Fix displaying of multibyte characters in smbclient.
• BUG 6711: Fix trust relationships to windows 2008 (2008 r2).
• BUG 6815: Fix Windows 2008 R2 SPNEGO negTokenTarg parsing failure.
• BUG 6772: Allow outstanding_aio_calls to be decremented.
• BUG 6804: Fix hpux compiler issue.
• BUG 6805: Correctly handle aio_error() and errno.
• BUG 6704: Fix syntax error in avahi configure test.
• BUG 6728: BSD needs sys/sysctl.h included to build properly.
• BUG 6824: Fix avahi activation.
• QNX doesn’t know uint – replace with uint_t.
• BUG 6690: Fix wrong error check in profile.
• BUG 6707: Fix an occasional segfault in config file parsing.
• BUG 6810: Add support for finding alternate credcaches to cifs.upcall.
• BUG 6606: Fix file corruption using smbclient with NT4 server.
• BUG 6703: Allow smbstatus as non-root.
• BUG 6731: Fix reading beyond the end of a named stream in xattr_streams.
• BUG 6765: Add a “hidden” parameter “share:fake_fscaps”.
• BUG 6793: Fix segfault in winbindd_pam_auth.
• BUG 6797: Fix a memleak in libwbclient.
• BUG 6807: Fix a segfault in “net rpc trustdom list” for long domain names.
• Fix an uninitialized variable.
• Only ever handle one event after a select call.
• BUG 6532: Fix domain enumeration if master browser has space in name.
• BUG 6711: Fix trust relationships to windows 2008 (2008 r2).
• BUG 6791: Fix linking order in cifs.upcall.
• BUG 6710: Adjust regex to match variable names including underscores.
• Conditional install of the cifs.upcall man page.
• BUG 4675: mount.cifs: Do not attempt to update /etc/mtab if it is a symbolic link.
• Fix warning occuring when building the man pages.
• BUG 6764: Fix timeval calculation.
• BUG 6735: Don’t overwrite password in pam_winbind, subsequent pam modules might use the old password and new password.
• BUG 6811: Fix reference to freed memory in pam_winbind.
• BUG 6826: Don’t fail authentication when one or some group of require-membership-of is invalid.
• BUG 6840: Fix crash in pam_winbind.