Samba4/Andrew and Jelmers Fantasy Page/2010

Plans for fortnight ending 12 July 2008

• wmi integration (Jelmer)
• upload openchange and samba-gtk into Debian (Jelmer)
• hdb_samba4 (Jelmer)

Plans for fortnight ending 28 June 2008

• test TEST_LDAP=yes (Andrew)
• external Heimdal use (Andrew)
• packaging (Andrew)

Plans for fortnight ending 14 June 2008

• Linked attributes for 'net vampire' (Andrew)
• AES Key support (check with docs and Win2008 on format) in samdb (Andrew)
• Work to make ldb merge easier for Simo (andrew)
• Any work required to merge NTP patch with ntp.org distribution (Andrew)
• Work with alpha testers on any issues that come up in production deployments of Samba4 (Andrew)

Achieved so far

• Samba4 alpha4 release (andrew)
  • without LDB merge, which seems a while off yet
• Sync ldap.py test with it's (now obsolete) ldap.js predecessor (andrew)
• Add python bindings for NetBIOS (Jelmer)
• Improve portability of Franky build (Jelmer)
• Asked Microsoft about AES key formats (Andrew)
  • Just getting the data from Win2008 failed due to other reasons
• Continued the battle with Microsoft over NTP documentation (Andrew)
• Worked on package of Heimdal for Fedora (Andrew)
  • As a preview to packaging Samba4 for Fedora

Plans for fortnight ending 31 May 2008

• Linked attributes for 'net vampire' (andrew)
• Make a Samba 4.0 alpha4 release if the ldb branch gets merged

http://packages.debian.org/testing/python/python-wmi (Jelmer)

Achieved so far

• Implement NTP signing (andrew)
  • Patch posted to ntp.org for consideration: NTP bugzilla item with patch
  • ntp_signd now started by default in samba4
• Finish CLDAP and NBT netlogon parsing. (Andrew)
  • Including expected value tests (critical to ensuring we return the *right* answer)
  • This should help things like Group Policy, which rely on this 'DC ping' functionality
• Merge Simo's ldb branch with current v4-0-test (abartlet)
  • Should make Simo's merge task easier.
• Removed smbpython and restructured Python modules hierarchy to not clutter Python namespace (Jelmer)
• Merged improvements made by Wilco and Jelmer to the registry during SambaXP (Jelmer)
• Added documentation to most Python modules and improved descriptions. (Jelmer)
• Fixed memory bug in autogenerated DCE/RPC Python bindings (Jelmer)
• Several test infrastructure improvements. (Jelmer)
  • Print full test path for easy inclusion in knownfail lists
  • Make test case name part of test name to allow a test to have different results against different test cases
  • Set PYTHONPATH during test runs
• Removed unused old EJS DCE/RPC bindings and testscripts (Jelmer)
• Make it easier to use various libraries externally without including all of Samba 4's build system (Jelmer)
• Updated Samba 4, OpenChange and Samba-Gtk Debian packages, now passes lintian. (Jelmer)
  • Announced on the OpenChange website (http://www.openchange.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=7&Itemid=77)
• Added Python bindings for IRPC / Messaging interfaces (Jelmer)
  • Rewrote smbstatus in Python
• Added mechanism for doing "raw" DCE/RPC requests from Python (Jelmer)
  • Also initial work on a script that should attempt to figure out IDL by probing
• Exposed more DCE/RPC internals from Python bindings (Jelmer)
• Initial work on WSGI implementation in web_server/ (Jelmer)
• Added combined buildsystem for Franky

Plans for fortnight ending 17 May 2008

• Fix our CLDAP netlogon processing to match description in [MS-ADTS] 7.3.3 (andrew)
  • Use this to fix and test group policy handling on Win2000 and WinXP clients

Achieved so far

• Partial security=server implementation, awaiting VFS proxy merge for testing (Andrew)
• Removed a large number of dead build farm hosts in response to automated mails (Andrew)
• Brought back old (D)COM code and made it compile again (Jelmer)
• Merged GNU make branch (Jelmer)
  • Now allows using system Python with Samba Python modules
• Finished Samba 4 Debian package together with Christian (Jelmer)
• Updated Debian packages for OpenChange and Samba-Gtk (Jelmer)
• Most of the parsing work towards the CLDAP/NBT netlogon consolidation (Andrew)

Plans for fortnight ending 3 May 2008

• Build Farm improvements
  • See if we can use SQLite to get a bit more done
  • make build farm summary page use sqlite
  • host list, by last reported time
  • last reported time on host individual page
• Finish security=server re-implementation in Samba4
• Finish ncacn_http implementation

Achieved so far

• Very useful Visit to Sam's home company for 2 days
  • Chat with principals to encourage them
  • Jelmer prepared WAFS branch for merging
    • Looks like further development will be upstream, which is great
  • Jelmer did some initial work on tests for proxy code
  • Andrew Started work on 'security=server' re-implementation for Samba4
    • This will allow WAFS to hijack an unsigned connection as a man in the middle attack.
  • Andrew fixed 'make test' to fail if PIDL tests fail
• Build Farm
  • make build farm send e-mails to dead hosts (based on SQLite database)

Achievements for fortnight ending ending 19 April 2008

SambaXP

• Successfully gave 3 presentations
  • Samba4 status report (Both)
  • Samba4 and the LDAP backend / Little barber shop of horrors (Andrew)
  • RPC Scripting using Python (Jelmer)
• Worked with Sam Liddicott
  • He has implemented the start of a WAFS (latency reducing) proxy for Samba4
  • Organised to visit his companies office
• Improved code coverage to give better 'headline' figure for presentation (Andrew)
  • Working with Kai's winbind work to run metze's structure based tests
  • Kai worked on blackbox tests
  • Required fixing up parts of winbind (untested code is broken code, Andrew)
• Fixed bugs in Pidl reported by Volker (Jelmer)
• Added knownfailure support in test code (Jelmer)
• Split out policy library into separate git repository (Jelmer)
• Worked with Wilco on more registry tests (Jelmer)
• Fixed several Python usability bits (Jelmer)
• Fixed duplication in blackbox tests (Jelmer)
• Initial work on ncacn_http support (Jelmer)
• Discussions with Guenther, Michael about reconciling registry, libsmbdotconf and smbdotconf in Samba 3 and 4 (Jelmer)