[Samba] Samba4: rfc2307 compatibility with Samba3

[Gémes Géza]

2012-08-14 23:15 keltezéssel, steve írta:
> On 12/08/12 17:45, Gémes Géza wrote:
>> 2012-08-12 16:26 keltezéssel, steve írta:
>>> On 12/08/12 15:28, Gémes Géza wrote:
>>>> 2012-08-12 09:31 keltezéssel, steve írta:
>>>>> On 08/11/2012 01:10 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>>>>> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 11:21 +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
>
>>> Hi Geza, hi everyone
>>> OK, conclusion.
>>>
>>> I have a single box with s4 DC. The same same box with a Vbox guest
>>> running S3.6, and NFS. The S4 DC becomes a NFS client when I mount the
>>> shares from the Vbox guest on it. I create users and their home
>>> directories on the DC. Files are served from the S3 Vbox guest. The DC
>>> has no shares apart from [global], [netlogon] and [sysvol]. The s3
>>> guest carries all the shares I would normally add after the 3 default
>>> DC shares. Instead of using the hostname of the DC when I mount shares
>>> on remote clients, I use the hostname of the S3 Guest.
>>>
>>> How am I doing so far?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Steve
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> IMHO what you've written could be a short HOWTO for using Samba4 in a
>> network (maybe just without virtualbox part ;-) ). If this is more than
>> a test setup I would recommend using Xen or KVM for virtualisation (My
>> production boxes run on top of Xen for about 6 years, and at home I use
>> KVM (for running test setups) (was easier to set up on a Desktop
>> machine), (used Virtualbox before (didn't have hardware support for 
>> KVM))).
>>
>
Hi,
> Hi Geza, hi everyone
>
> Thanks. Praise indeed coming from a dev of your status:) 
Please do not overestimate the occasional patches I've submitted.
> I'd still like to see s3fs cope with file serving on the DC itself, as 
> it's sooo much easier to setup.
>
> What is wrong with Vbox? Is Xen any smaller or faster?
Both smaller and faster 
(http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1110_xenkvm&num=1), 
and unlike vbox both kvm and xen provide a way to boot your virtual 
machine at the boot of the host.
> Our DC has only 2GB RAM. Running a VM on top of is already asking a 
> lot of it. Also we have rpm's for host and guest out of the box on 
> openSUSE. Can you take snapshots on Xen like on Vbox and roll back 
> when you screw up?
>
> On the NFS side of affairs I see it is impossible to create a group rw 
> NFS4 share from a 0022 umask. The NFS devs seem unwilling or unable to 
> do anything about it. Meanwhile the NFS3 Kerberos backport works well 
> enough. Any ideas? A separate partition with a 0002 umask. Can I do 
> that on the same disk?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>