Where to for Samba4?

Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer mwallnoefer at yahoo.de
Fri Sep 7 20:15:12 GMT 2007


Hi Andrew!

Andrew Bartlett schrieb:
> 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
>
>   
I think, we have to do something to involve more people in the SAMBA 4 
project. I don't know really what to do at the moment, but we have to 
figure out something. Otherwise, SAMBA 4 will be dead!

Matthias


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