Where to for Samba4?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Sep 7 11:48:01 GMT 2007


On Fri, 2007-09-07 at 06:17 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > The goals you mentioned in your previews mail perfectly match a project
> > name of "samba4dc", and it would make a lot of sense to have something
> > like this.
> 
> A Samba 4 that can do what Samba 3 can't seems more important than a
> Samba 4 that can do everything Samba 3 can;  since there is a Samba 3.
> Running an NT4 domain almost gets more painful by the day,  and if I or
> anyone else has to give up and switch to AD it is going to be a hard
> fight to come *back* to Samba.  But without some confident sounding
> "release" most people aren't going to touch Samba 4.

I was wondering why I have this gut feeling against the samba4AD
tagging, and perhaps this is it.  We need Samba4 to look and position
like a serious release, or else it won't be. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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