Starting on a Samba 4.0 'complete' debian package

Rowland Penny repenny at f2s.com
Wed Dec 19 08:58:45 MST 2012


On 19/12/12 15:04, Ralph Wuerthner wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 08:32:54 +1100
> Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Just a heads-up in case anyone is interested, particularly anybody
>> skilled in debian and debian packaging (I'm not :-).
>>
>> What I've done is, based on Jelmer's samba4 package in experimental
>> the samba (currently 3.x) package, and netgear's combined package, is
>> to create a combined package containing the AD DC and the file
>> server, as a single build.  In particular, compared with the existing
>> samba4 packages, this will allow users to run the smbd file server,
>> rather than being forced to run ntvfs, and doesn't mix other
>> components with the 3.x install.
>>
>> As far as I'm aware, no other debian package of the complete Samba
>> 4.0.0 release exists (if it does, I'll be be glad to know about it!).
> Have you looked at
> http://www.enterprisesamba.org/samba4ad/samba-4-appliance/ ?
> The SerNet guys already have Samba 4.0.0 Debian packages.
>
> Regards
>
>     Ralph
>
>
>
I think he is talking about this:
http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba4AD/sernet-samba4-appliance/packages/sernet-samba4_4.0.0-1_i386.deb

Only available for x86 not x86_64

What is needed more, IMHO, are cups packages that don't rely on the samba 3
packages.

Rowland


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