I hear that Fedora 18 will come with Samba 4

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 21:10 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> Is anyone making sure that the transition from Samba 3 to Samba 4
>> after an upgrade works fine?
>
> As Fedora isn't shipping the AD DC, their users really won't notice
> much.  The extra client libraries have already been shipped for ages in
> support of OpenChange.
>
> The same applies to the next debian release, which while it has a Samba4
> AD DC included (at least for now), the primary purpose remains
> OpenChange client support.  (Debian will only ships the ntvfs-based DC
> in thier next release)
>
> In both cases, the challenge for us will be to explain to our users why
> the package in their distribution isn't the full Samba 4.0, and how to
> replace it if they need an AD DC.
>
> Users of the file server really won't notice much at all - while lots of
> great work has gone on under the hood, the tdb databases used etc is
> unchanged, as far as I'm aware.

OK, this is good.

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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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