Is there anybody on the list that has Samba4 DRS working?

Sassy Natan sassyn at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 13:17:03 MST 2009


Hi Andrew


Congratulation on the new release - It working great at my side
I have build a new Debian pkg for this release?

How can i send patches to include my changes?

And Do u really plan to shit out a new alpha 10 this week?
Why? and serious bug ?

10x
Sassy

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 21:19 +0000, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer wrote:
>> Since I'm also a SAMBA 4 developer but not working on DRS I can give
>> you only a general suggestion: As far as I know it's still very
>> experimental (please correct me those who are working on it if I'm
>> wrong) - so it's in no case suitable for production systems yet. Maybe
>> in some months or half a year we will have it pretty stable.
>>
>> So if you *really* need more AD servers exactly *now* you probably still have to consider buying Windows Server - I'm sorry but I think it's the only viable solution.
>
> Indeed.  It is really important not to confuse our first demonstrations
> for a final solution.  There is much more work to do, but we have a
> promising start.
>
> I certainly would not deploy Samba4 'under a gun' - it needs patience
> and understanding from all involved, as when it blows up, we will need a
> small amount of time to diagnose and provide a workaround.
>
> For example, Samba4 alpha9 has a nasty segfault bug in it - only found
> by the administrator of my 'secret russian production site' - we will
> issue alpha10 in the next week to address that and some of the DRS
> issues.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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> Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
> Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
> Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
>
>


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