[Samba] Re: samba 4 svn23995 live CD release (maybe tp6?) dsa.msc works!

[Josh Kelley]

On 7/24/07, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> Keep testing and reporting issues, particularly on samba-technical and
> in bugzilla.
>
> We have a wide range of clients to keep working, so just checking all
> sorts of combinations is a great help.  It's not just windows:
>
>  - Samba 3.0 (latest)
>  - Samba 3.0 (older) - someone can remind me when we changed the join
> code
>  - Mac OSX
>
> Naturally, checking windows versions is also really helpful:
>  - Win2k SP0 (tricky kerberos issues make it an interesting test)
>  - win2k latest SP
>  - winXP SP0
>  - winXP SP1
>  - winXP SP2
>  - win2k3
>  - win2k3 SP1
>  - win2k3 R2 with SP2

This is a bit of a tangent, but I've been curious how the Samba team
does testing like this during development.  Is it primarily done
manually?  Has anyone tried setting up something like VMware to do
some automated testing?  Were there any particular issues involved in
doing so?

Josh Kelley