samba2.2aplah2

[Greg J. Zartman]

I agree, the Samba team has done a tremendous job on this application (even
if they do call it alpha).

I'm running Samba 2.2 from very current CVS in a production environment and
I can't believe the improvement over Win2k server.

Great work!!!

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Torsten Curdt" <tcurdt at dff.st>
To: "Gerald Carter" <gcarter at valinux.com>
Cc: <samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 9:14 AM
Subject: RE: samba2.2aplah2


> > > We are still running an alpha 0 CVS snapshot quite successful
> > > now for a while in production environment (hurray for the brave :)
> > >
> > > Lurking to the list, I feel now is the time to upgrade to another
> > > CVS version. But before this I have some questions...
> > >
> > > All our users are stored in a LDAP server. Right now we use nss_ldap
> > > and pam_ldap for the linux authentification and try to keep
> > > the smbpasswd accounts in sync. (not a nice sollution)
> > >
> > > I wonder if an upgrade to the latest CVS and the use of windbind
> > > can help us in means of LDAP integration?!
> >
> > winbindd will help you only if you are running the Samba host
> > in domain mode security.
>
> Hm... so I'll have to stick to this icky sollution?
>
> Any progress with the LDAP support? I don't want to
> maintain two user managements.
>
> I remember there was a big rewrite of the auth interface.
> Is their now a reasonable way of adding a smooth integration
> of user auth?
>
> > > Even the alpha is so promising that it doesn't matter at all
> > > but... any plans to go beta?
> >
> > This will hopefully be the last alpha release.  Beta after
> > that obviously. :-)  (Yeah!)
>
> Alpha or beta ... in *nix world this seems to be what
> in win world releases are ;)
>
> Great work!
> --
> Torsten
>
>
>