[SOLVED] Samba4 file server status

Juan Pablo Lorier jplorier at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 18:19:51 MDT 2013


Thank you very much


El 13/08/13 21:16, Jelmer Vernooij escribió:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:02:54PM -0300, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
>> 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.
> That's no longer the case. Using Samba 4 should give you the same (or
> better) file server as Samba 3.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jelmer
>
>> 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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