Samba4/Andrew and Jelmers Fantasy Page/2010

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Plans for fortnight ending 31 May 2008

  • Implement NTP signing (andrew)
  • 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

  • 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
  • Removed smbpython. (Jelmer)
  • Restructured Python modules hierarchy to not clutter Python namespace (Jelmer)

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)