SUCCESSfull setup

[Lazar Krumov]

Hi Zahari, 

I'm glad to see local supporters of SAMBA :)

Speaking generally: 
I do 'apt-get install ... ' on Debian. The 'breeze' (download/compile/install/config) is the other option of use softwares.
Advantages, which I use by doing 'apt-get' are:
- intensively testet by DEBIAN within this bunch of software/libraries. This gives me beter assurance in bugs-free environment. According my experience DEBIAN is quite BUG-FREE combination of software/libs
- satisfy dependencies with already tested versions of dependent packages. Also the combination of dependencies with the software intself are tested, I believe.

Disadvantage of the above method, prefered by me, is the "out-of-date" versions of most of the software. But it's understandable: Testing of the software takes reasonable amount of time in most of the cases. Even more: As much tests are performed as much the spent time is. The result of such delay in versions is stability, which is the most important in PROD! Sometimes this also prevent from hassles .

Currently I have some problems with "M$ master browsing" within the AD-Domain. Most probably this is clarified in recent versions of SAMBA4. So maybe I'm going into the 'breeze' method ... 

Cheers,
Lazar Krumov
GIS Sofia
IT Consultant




On Monday 25 March 2013 18:15:34 Zahari Zahariev wrote:
> Hello Lazar,
> 
> Congratulation on your success!
> 
> I recommend you not to use the apt-get provided packages for Samba4 but get
> the latest stable released source in TAR.GZ format then compile and install
> it which is a breeze:
> 
> https://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-4.0.4.tar.gz
> 
> # ./configure && make && make install
> 
> Package system versions especially Debian's are very very outdated.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Zahari Zahariev
> Software Engineer
> Cisco Systems, Sofia
> 
> 
> On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 3:57 AM, Lazar Krumov <lkrumov at gis-sofia.bg> wrote:
> 
> > Hi SAMBA,
> >
> > I'm very happy to report you, that I followed throughly the instructions:
> > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO
> > and successfully setup AD with SAMBA4. I joined one XP machine and will
> > contunie experiment backups, crash/recovery, availability, migration,
> > integration with PAM etc. tests before I go live in Samab4-AD migration.
> >
> > I had just one minor problem with installing SAMBA4 on Debian. I've
> > installed Debian Wheezy. It comes with Samba4 BETA2. In that BETA not all
> > the functionality works according to the HOWTO. There are missing commands
> > (i.e. samba-tool domain provision ).
> > That's why I took SAMBA4 packed for Debian from Sernet:
> > http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba4AD/sernet-samba4-appliance/packages/
> >
> > In the current infrastructure I still use NT4-Domain Controller running on
> > Windows NT4 SP6 with about 150-200 machines and 200-250 users. I was
> > waiting for SAMBA4-AD and finally it's here :)
> > I've been using SAMBA for many years, since version 1.9. In several other
> > companies I've deployed NT-Style Domain Controller with Samba + OpenLDAP. I
> > intend migrate them also to Samba4-AD.
> >
> > BIG Thanks to Samba Team !
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Lazar Krumov
> > GIS Sofia
> > IT Consultant
> >
>