Samba 3.0.27a Available for Download

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                   Release Notes for Samba 3.0.27a
                             Nov 20, 2007
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Samba 3.0.27a is a bug fix release and is the current release
for production servers running the Samba 3.0 series.

Important fixes in 3.0.27a include:

  o A crash bug regression experienced by smbfs clients caused
    by the fix for CVE-2007-4572.


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Changes
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Changes since 3.0.27
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o   Michael Adam 
    * BUG 4308: Add missing become_root/unbecome_root around calls of 
      add_aliases.  Add same changes in create_token_from_username()
      surrounding the call to getsampwsid().
    * BUG 5083: Make solarisacl_sys_acl_get_fd() return a result when 
      there is one (thereby fixing a memleak).
    * BUG 5023: Fix smbd's interaction with NFSv4 ACL compatible VFS 
      plugins such as GPFS and ZFS.


o   Jeremy Allison 
    * BUG 4978: Ensure that DOS attributes are copied with folders.
    * Fix bug where tdb lock call interrupted with an alarm sig would 
      not terminate and could lead to runaway smbd processes.
    * Fix smbd crash bug which resulted from a regression in the patch
      for CVE-2007-4572 patch.
    * Prevent nmbd from adding non-initialized name to IP address
      mappings to it's WINS database.


o   Dmitry Butskoy 
    * Properly catch errors in the query_user() callback to avoid
      generated struct passwd replies with zero length usernames.


o   Gerald (Jerry) Carter 
    * Prevent segv in winbindd running on a DC using the "idmap
      backend" syntax.


o   Steve Langasek 
    * BUG 4781: Allow cleaning of /etc/mtab by canonicalizing mountpoint.


o   Volker Lendecke 
    * BUG 4028: Fix message popup sent via "smbclient -M".
    * BUG 4984: Filename unix_convert() fixes for WinNT 4.0 clients.


o   Stefan Metzmacher 
    * Fix crash bug in pidl generated client code caused by
      [in,out,unique] pointers.
    * Fix crash bug in the group mapping code.


o   Heinrich Mislik 
    * Fixes for AIX quota support.


o   Tomasz Ostrowski 
    * BUG 4393: Prevent smbclient from dropping 0 bytes files from tar 
      archives.


o   Simo Sorce 
    * Fixes for internal idmap domain list when "winbind trusted
      domains only" is enabled.
    * Fix 32/64-bit compatibility issues in the winbind request/response
      structures.


o   Martin Zielinski 
    * Error code path fix for get_mydnsdomname().

Please refer to the original Samba 3.0.27 Release Notes for more details regarding changes in previous releases.