Samba 4 current release - Sites Support

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2013-10-01 at 16:10 +0100, Mark Walker wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Great to see Samba 4 really coming into its own.
> 
> Is it likely AD Sites support will be working in Samba4 to allow different
> subnets to query a specific domain controller?
> 
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc782048(v=ws.10).aspx
> 
> The RSAT tool seems to load for it but no idea if samba supports it
> internally.

Yes, my understanding is that as far as clients are concerned, sites
works.  That is, clients will contact their local site first. 

However, the DCs don't use it, and replication is still a dense mesh, as
I understand it. 

Andrew Bartlett

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