Samba4 file server status

Juan Pablo Lorier jplorier at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 18:02:54 MDT 2013


Hi Jelmer,

Last year when I was following samba progress it was advised to use 
samba 3 instead of samba 4 if the intention was building a file server. 
As I've not been following the progress since a few months now, I don't 
know if this is still adviced or it has changed.
Regards,

Juan Pablo


El 13/08/13 17:24, Jelmer Vernooij escribió:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:15:34PM -0300, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
>> I'm setting up a samba file server with samba 3.6 and I'm having trouble
>> authenticating against an 2003 AD DC and I was wondering what is the
>> status of the file server status in samba 4 so I can use it instead of
>> samba 3.
> What do you mean exactly when you say "the Samba 4 file server"? Are
> you disabling s3fs and explicitly switching to the ntvfs server?
>
> The file server that is used by default in Samba 4.0 is derived
> from the file server in Samba 3.0. What was originally called the
> Samba 4 file server is not used by default.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer



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