take on future events

Richard Sharpe sharpe at ns.aus.com
Mon Feb 1 10:41:23 GMT 1999


Hi,

At 05:54 PM 2/1/99 +1100, Jean-Francois wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Gerald Carter wrote:
>
>> Greetings again! :-)
>> 
>> So here's my take on future events as far as Samba 
>> is concerned.  Comments welcome.  This is a "Samba'a 
>> future" chapter in the book.
>> 
>>    * LDAP support will continue (become official when?)
>>      - the ability to interface with an external LDAP 
>>        server for Windows NT account information 
>>        (used only for PDC functionality?)
>
>used only in security=user mode but NOT used in security=domain mode
>
>There you're talking about standard LDAP support (compliant with RFC207)
>We'll need in the future a second LDAP version, aka Active Directory
>compatible.
>
>>    * NIS+ support (anyone working on this now?)
>>      - provide the same functionality as the LDAP 
>>        backend.  Also abale to get /etc/passwd 
>>        entries from NIS+ as well as smbpasswd info
>> 
>>    * PDC development will continue (official in 2.1 maybe?)
>>      TODO list 
>>         - trust relationships
>>         - PDC <-> BDC replication (are we going to try to 
>>           do this?)
>>         - writeable access to Samba account database via
>>           NT graphical tools
>
>Yep all of this.
>
>>    * NT ACL support on Samba shares
>
>Yep, it's on Jeremy's TODO list
>
>>    * what about WINS replication (anyone interested 
>>      on working on this?)
>
>is it really required ?
>
>>    * How to handle NT5?
>>      - Samba should be able to function as an NT4 PDC
>>        and get NT5 clients to use the domain model,
>>        but what about new NT5 features?  Any thoughts?
>
>Which new NT2000 features ?
> 
>>    * True Windows NT printing support (spoolss pipe).
>
>Give me 3 more weeks and I go back on it.
>
>> Any other things that should be mentioned?
>
>DFS support

I have been asked to do DFS support by someone and would like to have a
crack at it.

>	J.F.



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