Confused about samba4 & s3fs

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Sun Aug 19 03:47:29 MDT 2012


On 19/08/12 09:53, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 09:02 +0200, steve wrote:
>> On 19/08/12 08:45, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>> On 18/08/12 22:31, Gémes Géza wrote:
>>>> 2012-08-18 16:33 keltezéssel, steve írta:
>>>>> On 18/08/12 15:16, 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:
>>

>>
>> Sorry Rowland, I hope you don't mind if I butt in here:
>> Just to push a little more: Will it be possible to take a smb.conf from
>> a samba3.6 installation and use it without modification when running the
>> samba binary?
>
> No, and I plan to make this abort.  If you take an smb.conf from a Samba
> 3.x installation, you will need to start 'smbd/nmbd/winbindd' as you did
> in Samba 3.x.

Hi Andrew. I'm really sorry for all these what must to you seem clear 
ideas with obvious answers, but this really is the stuff that end users 
need to know and are confused about.

Could you give a quick [Y/N] sort of reply to these?

1. If I run the samba binary, I cannot have a 3.x smb.conf.

2. Let's say I've built Samba4 and I want to use a 3.x smb.conf. Do I do 
this: start smbd, nmbd and winbindd from /usr/local/samba/sbin.

3. if [ $2 == "yes" ] I'm back to a plain old 3.x and I do not have AD 
possibilities.

3. By running samba, I'm already running smbd and winbind.

4. Do you plan to prevent users using samba (the one at the moment which 
works so well with s3fs aa fileserver) as a one box solution to AD and 
fileserver?

Cheers,
Steve



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