Of Samba bugs and 3.026a

We just put a Samba tip up the other day regarding bugs and bug fixes, so it’s kind of ironic that Jerry Carter, release manager for the Samba team, sent out a few bug updates today to the mailing list.

The first, complete with patch availability:

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Description
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The idmap_ad.so library provides an nss_info extension to Winbind for retrieving a user’s home directory path, login shell and primary group id from an Active Directory domain controller. This functionality is enabled by defining the “winbind nss info”smb.conf option to either “sfu” or “rfc2307″.

Both the Windows “Identity Management for Unix” and “Services for Unix” MMC plug-ins allow a user to be assigned a primary group for Unix clients that differs from the user’s Windows primary group.
When the rfc2307 or sfu nss_info plugin has been enabled, in the absence of either the RFC2307 or SFU primary group attribute, Winbind will assign a primary group ID of 0 to the domain user queried using the getpwnam() C library call.

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Patch Availability
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A patch addressing this defect has been posted to

 http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/

The release notes are available online at:

http://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-3.0.26a.html

Binary packages will be made available on a volunteer basis at

http://download.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/