Sharity 3 - Release Notes

Sharity 3.9 - November 8, 2010

A bug which caused directories to be treated as plain files on Solaris 10 has been fixed.
Several rare issues which could cause a crash have been fixed.
Improved compatibility with non-Windows servers.

Kerberos authentication did not work with Windows 2008 servers. Fixed.
The modification date of newly created files could be off by several seconds. Fixed.
Share names may now contain non-ASCII characters.
Fixed display of share level security mounts in login list.
Added workarounds for unreliable DFS servers. DFS capable servers may not report their DFS capability immediately after reboot.
Always allow root user to unmount shares, even if the mounts section is locked.

Implemented NTLM2 (not to be confused with NTLMv2) authentication. This improves interoperability with Windows 2008 Server.

Fixed a serious security problem. All versions starting at 3.0 and up to 3.4 are affected, please upgrade to 3.5!

GUI can check for new versions automatically.
Syslog level used by Sharity can now be configured.
We now offer a combined package which includes the basic packet and the Kerberos module.

GUI can check for new versions automatically.
Syslog level used by Sharity can now be configured.
We now offer a combined package which includes the basic packet and the Kerberos module.

Changing the modification date of a file did not work with some servers. Fixed.
Fixed various bugs in handling of Access Control Lists (ACLs).
Various improvements in browsing network resources in /CIFS/entire_network.
Kerberos module detects “Global Catalog” server more reliably now.
Fixed possible deadlock when unmounting stale mounts.
Fixed a bug which could cause incomplete directory listings.
An error during attribute fetch was not reported to the user. Wrong attributes were returned instead. Fixed.
Fixed Security-ID (SID) to group name translation in sharity acl get command. Some groups were not found in Active Directory.
Fixed bugs in emulated hard links: one memory leak and write protection status of newly created file.
Fixed race condition in Kerberos authentication. This bug could cause a hang at login.
On HP-UX 11, Sharity mounts vanished some time after an NFS mount or unmount was performed. Fixed.
Fixed several bugs which could cause a daemon crash.

New implementation of automatic mounts in /CIFS. This new implementation is easier for the kernel to handle.
New implementation of Distributed File System (DFS): DFS redirections are now implemented as symbolic links into the automounting browser at /CIFS.
Inheritance flags in Access Control Lists (ACLs) can be edited now.
Various enhancements of the command line interface: More control over mounts and logins for root, new option to log out from all servers and shares with one command.
New “x-homes:” file system makes Windows domain integration much easier.
New files in /usr/local/sharity3/var/ for local configurations.
Experimental feature: Mapping of Windows ACLs to Unix attributes. See manual section “Unix Home Directories on SMB Shares”.
New configuration file: var/idmap.cfg for SID to Unix UID/GID translation.
New configuration option “Report Write Errors”. It allows a trade-off between data integrity and write performance.

Improved performance of data read and write.
Share level security can now be used from the command line, too.
Mounting a share wich is a DFS redirection by itself is now possible. Previous versions allowed DFS redirections only for subdirectories of shares.
Fixed a bug where files shared for read (but not for write) could not be opened by Sharity.
Fixed a bug where a directory listings could abort with an internal error.
Fixed a possible crash when unmounting shares.
Fixed possible deadlock when network connection to server breaks.
Command line tool could hang in an endless loop when passwords were given non-interactively. Fixed.

Subdirectories of a share, e.g. smb://server/share/dir, can now be mounted. Previous versions allowed mounting of the top level share only. Use this feature with caution! If you mount a share and a subdirectory of the same share, Sharity will treat them as separate entities, wasting memory for caches and causing possible synchronization problems.
The command line subcommand “sharity mount” accepts options “-U” (remote user) and “-D” (domain) now.

Lookup of “..” in the root of a DFS share failed with I/O error. Fixed.
Fixed possible crash when browsing servers which are unreachable.
Improved reliability of /bin/pwd functionality.
Emulation of symbolic links did not work when hard links were also emulated. Fixed.
When a user login was cancelled, the user may have been listed with status “inactive”. Failed logins are now removed from the list.
Works on Mac OS X 10.3 now.
Fixed possible daemon crash when stopping Sharity.

Added configuration option to disable Extended Security. Disabling Extended Security may be necessary to connect to buggy servers.
Extended the shell command sharity license -v to also display the number of authenticated users. This makes it easier to debug problems with the license limits.
Ensure that all users have sufficient privileges to run “df -a” without errors.

The following features have been added since Sharity 2:

Added NTLMSSP and Kerberos authentication (requires Kerberos module).
Added support for Microsoft’s Distributed File System (DFS).
Browsing of Active Directory (LDAP) resources (requires Kerberos module).
Manipulation of Access Control Lists (ACLs).
Improved automounter.
Multi-Language: English and German.
Extended trial mode: Limitation to 3 levels of directory hierarchy was dropped. Limit in number of mounts and users instead.

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