Confused about samba4 & s3fs

[Rowland Penny]

On 18/08/12 16:26, steve wrote:
>
>>> Does this mean that you can use nmbd,smbd and winbindd on the samba4
>>> server or not?
>>
>> You can, but it will not be an AD domain controller.  Remember that
>> Samba 4.0 is also the next release after Samba 3.6, and so it does
>> everything that release does as well.
>>
>
> Hi Andrew
>
> I'm running the samba binary on the DC. It acts as an AD domain 
> controller and a (rather good) fileserver. I've no idea what nmbd does.
> Without doing anything apart from adding the links to /lib and 
> lib/security for PAM, and adding winbind to /etc/etc/nsswitch, winbind 
> also fires up OK on the DC.
>
> I came into the list around Nov. 2011. Alpha 18 I think it was.
>
> IOW, I can use smbd and winbind on a Samba4 DC and it still acts as 
> both a DC and a file server.
>
> But you seem to be saying that it can't. . .
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
Hi Steve, as far as I know, the nmbd daemon is what makes the shares 
appear in Network Neighborhood, without it, you cannot browse the server.

Rowland


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