Where to for Samba4?

Matt Schwartz mes5048 at verizon.net
Thu Sep 6 19:31:45 GMT 2007


Unfortunately, that means more systems to maintain.  In the mean time, I wouldn't mind this approach.  But that said, let's work towards Samba4 as a full fledged File, Print, and AD server.  Samba4 is, in many ways, more efficient.

>From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>
>Date: 2007/09/06 Thu AM 06:37:20 CDT
>To: samba-technical at samba.org
>Subject: Re: Where to for Samba4?

>As a mere administrator who humbly injects his opinion...
>
>> Finally, I've heard all manner of different people give views in the
>> press about where Samba4 is heading - a separate release, a DC only,
>> just another head of a Samba3 borg?  
>> From my point of view, I'm expecting to make a release, with good DC,
>> and hopefully good file-server capabilities.  But I would like to
>> discuss what (if anything) Samba4 means to more than just myself.
>> Thoughts?
>
>If I could create an AD domain with working group policies and OpenLDAP
>integration, and continue to use Samba3 for file-services, printing,
>etc... I'd be dancing in the street and passing out flowers to
>strangers.  As would many of the IT people I know.



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