Confused about samba4 & s3fs

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 11:47 +0200, steve wrote:
> 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.

Yes.  Unless you have 'server role = active directory domain controller'
the 'samba' binary will refuse to start (some small exceptions for the
use of the ntvfs file server, cifs and rpc proxies will apply). 

> 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.

Yes. 

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

Yes. 

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

Yes, you are running something that provides those facilities. 

> 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?

No.  You can use the AD DC (running 'samba') as a file server.  We
discussed earlier why we don't recommend it for larger or complex
installations per good network design practice. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org