8.208. samba

Bug Fixes

BZ#1021706

The %G substitution character in certain variables did not resolve into a name. As a consequence, %G was replaced by the GID number and not by the group name. This update provides a patch to fix this bug and %G is now successfully substituted into a name.

BZ#1035332

When the user logs in as a guest, the guest boolean flag is attached to the user's token. When the user connected to a share with the force user option, this flag overrode the creation of the token for the specific share with the force user set, ensuring that the user had only the guest access. Consequently, files were created as the nobody user. With this update, the guest flag is set under a force user share only when the user name being mapped to was the same as the guest user. As a result, the files are created as the specified user.

BZ#1053886

The function that is used to authenticate the user did not provide all information about the user. When this function was used with another call to authenticate the user over a secure channel, the field for the path to the home directory was empty. Now, the correct DCPRC() function is called and all required fields are filled out as expected.

BZ#1087472

The libsmbclient library toolset did not initialize the default configuration parameters. As a consequence, applications using libsmbclient terminated unexpectedly when the $HOME parameter was not properly set. With this update, the default configuration values are loaded correctly and the applications no longer crashe in the described scenario.

BZ#1096522

Due to missing support for partial data and small size of certain buffers, clients were unable to cope with the buffer size returned by the server. The missing support has been added and Samba now works as expected.

BZ#1107777

With the SMB2 and SMB3 protocols, the filenama_convert() function was not called on the full path, which caused that the last component of the path was not normalized. Consequently, listing of large directories did not work correctly with SMB2 and SMB3. This bug has been fixed and large directories can be listed properly.

Enhancements

BZ#1081539, BZ#1099693

A timeout option has been added to the smbclient command-line utility. This allows users to customize the timeout value for Samba file operations.

BZ#1129006

It is now possible to set a different OS version for the Printing subsystem (spoolss) configuration. This allows users to work around situations where printing drivers do not interact with the printing server because they detect that its version is too old.