Download Samba 3.6.8

Version 3.6.8 of Samba has been released. This program runs on Unix, BSD and Linux servers, and is an open source implementation of the SMB/CIFSnetwork 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 release notes for this release can be found below.

Major enhancements in Samba 3.6.8 include:

• Fix crash bug in smbd caused by a blocking lock followed by close (bug #9084).
• Fix Winbind panic if we couldn’t find the domain (bug #9135).

Changes since 3.6.7:

• BUG 9058: Fix smbstatus code dump when a file entry has delete tokens.
• BUG 9098: Fix refreshing of Kerberos tickets in Winbind.
• BUG 9124: Fix setting of “inherited” bit on inherited ACEs.
• BUG 9137: Make ‘smbclient allinfo’ show the snapshot list.
• BUG 9066: “Domain Users” incorrectly added as additional group on domain members.
• BUG 9067: Use correct RID for “Domain Guests” primary group.
• BUG 9065: Fix bad call to memcpy source3/registry/regfio.c.
• BUG 9123: Fix lprng job tracking errors.
• BUG 9088: Fix smbclient/tarmode panic when connecting to Windows 2000 clients.
• BUG 9085: Fix NMB registration for a duplicate workstation.
• BUG 9037: Open and netbsd have the md5 symbols in libc.
• BUG 9144: Fix nfs quota support with Linux nfs4 mounts.
• BUG 9037: Fix name clash in MD5 causing the “net ads join” to fail on T4 (sun4v) systems on Solaris 10.
• BUG 9058: Backport FSCTL codes from master.
• BUG 9084: Fix crash bug in smbd caused by a blocking lock followed by close.
• BUG 9150: Valid open requests can cause smbd assert due to incorrect oplock handling on delete requests.
• BUG 9104: Fix identification of idle clients in Winbind to avoid crashes and NDR parsing errors.
• BUG 9058: Fix segfault in smb status.
• BUG 9111: Fix compilation with newer MIT Kerberos which hides internal symbols.
• BUG 9112: Fix flooding the logs with records we don’t find in pcap.
• BUG 9122: Initialize the print backend after we setup winreg.
• BUG 9135: Fix Winbind panic if we couldn’t find the domain.