samba (2:4.0.10+dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=low The SWAT package is no longer available. Upstream support for SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) was removed in samba 4.1.0. As a result, swat is no longer shipped in the Debian Samba packages. Unfortunately, there is currently no replacement. Details why SWAT has been removed upstream can be found on the samba-technical mailing list: https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2013-February/090572.html -- Ivo De Decker Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:52:54 +0200 samba (2:3.6.5-2) unstable; urgency=low NSS modules have been split out from libpam-winbind to libnss-winbind. If Recommends: installs are disabled on your system you may need to manually install the libnss-winbind package after upgrading from former versions of winbind (for instance from squeeze) or from former versions of libpam-winbind. -- Christian Perrier Mon, 07 May 2012 22:16:32 +0200 samba (2:3.5.11~dfsg-3) unstable; urgency=low PAM modules and NSS modules have been split out from the winbind package into libpam-winbind. If Recommends: installs are disabled on your system you may need to manually install the libpam-winbind package after upgrading from former versions of winbind (for instance from squeeze) -- Steve Langasek Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:00:13 +0000 samba (2:3.4.0-1) unstable; urgency=low Default passdb backend changed in samba 3.4.0 and above Beginning with samba 3.4.0, the default setting for "passdb backend" changed from "smbpasswd" to "tdbsam". If your smb.conf file does not have an explicit mention of "passdb backend" when upgrading from pre-3.4.0 versions of samba, it is likely that users will no longer be able to authenticate. As a consequence of all this, if you're upgrading from lenny and have no setting of "passdb backend" in smb.conf, you MUST add "passdb backend = smbpasswd" in order to keep your samba server's behaviour. As Debian packages of samba explicitly set "passdb backend = tdbsam" by default since etch, very few users should need to modify their settings. -- Christian Perrier Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:42:19 +0200 samba (3.0.27a-2) unstable; urgency=low Weak authentication methods are disabled by default Beginning with this version, plaintext authentication is disabled for clients and lanman authentication is disabled for both clients and servers. Lanman authentication is not needed for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X or Samba, but if you still have Windows 95/98/ME clients (or servers) you may need to set lanman auth (or client lanman auth) to yes in your smb.conf. The "lanman auth = no" setting will also cause lanman password hashes to be deleted from smbpasswd and prevent new ones from being written, so that these can't be subjected to brute-force password attacks. This means that re-enabling lanman auth after it has been disabled is more difficult; it is therefore advisable that you re-enable the option as soon as possible if you think you will need to support Win9x clients. Client support for plaintext passwords is not needed for recent Windows servers, and in fact this behavior change makes the Samba client behave in a manner consistent with all Windows clients later than Windows 98. However, if you need to connect to a Samba server that does not have encrypted password support enabled, or to another server that does not support NTLM authentication, you will need to set "client plaintext auth = yes" and "client lanman auth = yes" in smb.conf. -- Steve Langasek Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:23:37 -0800 samba (3.0.26a-2) unstable; urgency=low Default printing system has changed from BSD to CUPS Previous versions of this package were configured to use BSD lpr as the default printing system. With this version of Samba, the default has been changed to CUPS for consistency with the current default printer handling in the rest of the system. If you wish to continue using the BSD printing interface from Samba, you will need to set "printing = bsd" manually in /etc/samba/smb.conf. If you wish to use CUPS printing but have previously set any of the "print command", "lpq command", or "lprm command" options in smb.conf, you will want to remove these settings from your config. Otherwise, if you have the cupsys package installed, Samba should begin to use it automatically with no action on your part. -- Steve Langasek Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:19:36 -0800