IPv6 and Samba 3.2

David Holder david.holder at erion.co.uk
Tue Jan 8 16:19:07 GMT 2008


Simo,

Thanks. I'll let you know how I get on...

David
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simo wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 15:32 +0000, David Holder wrote:
>   
>> Jeremy,
>>
>> Happy New Year.
>>
>> Eventually I have found some time to return to looking at Samba 3.2 and 
>> IPv6.
>>
>> I have a few questions:
>>
>>     * What is the current status of IPv6 in the Samba 3.2 code?
>>     * Is there anything that can be tested over IPv6 yet or are you
>>       still doing the ground work for this?
>>     * I'm assuming that I am best looking at the test branch?
>>     
>
> Hi David,
> most of the work on IPv6 in the 3.2 is done, testing would actually be
> very welcome.
>
> Use the git branch v3-2-test.
>
>   
>> My plan is to:
>>
>>     * Look at the code ;-) - doing this now
>>     * Attempt to use Samba 3.2 over IPv6 server/client (if this is possible)
>>     * Carry out tests in our lab against Windows Vista and Windows
>>       Server 2008
>>     
>
> This would be very nice, thanks.
>
>   
>> I'm also revisiting Samba4 and IPv6 this week.
>>     
>
> We have not done much work in samba4 wrt IPv6 lately, but a new
> assessment would help :)
>
> Simo.
>
>   


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