Samba 3 on a Samba 4 AD?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 02:01:48PM -0700, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
> Can you join a samba 3.4.5 machine to a samba 4 AD environment?
> Is this scenario the best of both worlds?
> 
> Would you be able to have the directory sharing and
> printer sharing of samba 3?
> 
> and the windows authentication of samba 4?

Yep, that should work. If it does not, let us know and file
bugs.

There's even a plan to do that within the same box:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Franky

Volker