Confused about samba4 & s3fs

Rowland Penny repenny at f2s.com
Sat Aug 18 07:35:56 MDT 2012


On 18/08/12 14:16, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 14:09 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 18/08/12 13:34, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 10:46 +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>> On 18/08/12 09:06, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>>>>> If you run nmbd on a Samba4 DC, then nmbd won't know how to pass on the
>>>>> NETLOGON datagram packets to the cldap server, unless specially
>>>>> configured with 'cldap proxy'.  Even then, the source IP address is lost
>>>>> due to the proxy, which will break sites support.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, you have to turn off the nbt server in 'samba', otherwise when I
>>>>> fix it to correctly die when a port is in use, samba won't start.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew Bartlett
>>>>>
>>>> Is any of the above documented anywhere, if it is, I must have missed it.
>>> The Samba4 HOWTO only tells you to run 'samba'.  We handle all the other
>>> details internally.
>>>
>>> Andrew Bartlett
>>>
>> Why say you need to do this and that and then turn round and basically
>> say 'but you can't do that anyway' ?
>>
>> Please note that I am only running the samba daemon on the server, I
>> only turned nmbd on to try it, it seems to work.
>>
>> Also why does ' [ANNOUNCE] Samba 4.0 beta6' have the following two
>> stanzas:
>>
>> Samba 4.0 beta ships with two distinct file servers.  We now use the
>> file server from the Samba 3.x series 'smbd' for all file serving by
>> default.  For pure file server work, the binaries users would expect
>> from that series (nmbd, winbindd, smbpasswd) continue to be available.
>>
>>   There is no NetBIOS browsing support (network neighbourhood) in the
>>    'samba' binary (use nmbd and smbd instead)
>>
>> Samba is saying in ' [ANNOUNCE] Samba 4.0 beta6' that smdb,nmbd&
>> winbindd are available for use, and then saying on the forums that you
>> should not use them. Which is correct and why, please give the answer
>> in terms that a normal user can understand, not developer speak, I do
>> not fully understand developer speak.
> These different components perform different roles in the Samba system.
> The AD DC has only one daemon binary you need to interact with, 'samba'.
> Users wishing to have a file server or a domain member server need to
> use 'nmbd, smbd and winbindd' as they have done with Samba 3.x
Does this mean that you can use nmbd,smbd and winbindd on the samba4 
server or not?


>
> I do appreciate the feedback, as we can certainly improve the text in
> WHATSNEW (I've already removed most of the s3fs warnings that were
> appropriate in beta2, but not now).
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
OK, I await the next beta.

Rowland

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