IPv6 support in various Linux distros

[Steve French (smfltc)]

> I need information on whether IPv6 is supported on Samba for the
> following distros:

This is a better question for samba-technical list, not the linux client list.

Partial IPv6 support on the server is available in Samba 4, but not in any version of Samba shipped by a distro that I am aware of.   I am sure that we would welcome attempts at adding this for Samba 3, if the patch were cleanly written.

IPv6 support for CIFS is available in the current linux cifs client (starting with cifs.ko version 1.49), but will be easier to use when some small changes are made to the cifs mount helper (to allow for DNS to IPv6 host name lookups, rather than requiring the IPv6 address be specified on the mount).  This version of the client will likely eventually make its way into distros, but that is a better question (ie the timing of their merge of updated code) for the distributions' mailing lists.