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[José A. Rivera]

A good direction, IMHO. I'd like to propose the folllowing slight
alteration, a proofread if you will:

Samba is an important component for seamlessly integrating Linux/Unix
Servers
and Desktops as members into Active Directory (AD) environments. It can
also
function as an AD-compatible domain controller.

--Jose


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Michael Adam <obnox at samba.org> wrote:

> On 2014-08-13 at 18:52 +0200, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > The samba.org index page describes Samba in the following way:
> >
> >   Samba is the standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for
> Linux and
> >   Unix.
> >
> >   Samba is Free Software licensed under the GNU General Public License,
> the Samba
> >   project is a member of the Software Freedom Conservancy.
> >
> >   Since 1992, Samba has provided secure, stable and fast file and print
> services
> >   for all clients using the SMB/CIFS protocol, such as all versions of
> DOS and
> >   Windows, OS/2, Linux and many others.
> >
> >   Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix
> Servers and
> >   Desktops into Active Directory environments using the winbind daemon.
> >
> > This fails to mention any of the server side directory services beyond
> winbind.
> >
> > I'd like to change that last paragraph to cover the work we did for 4.0.
>
> Absolutely!
>
> > What about something like:
> >
> >   Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix
> Servers and
> >   Desktops into Active Directory environments, and it can function both
> as a
> >   domain controller and as a domain member.
>
> The first (and original) sentence cover the member but, so I'd
> propose something like this:
>
>   Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate
>   Linux/Unix Servers and Desktops as members into Active Directory
>   environments, and Samba can nowadays also function as an
>   Active Directory compatible domain controller.
>
> Cheers - Michael
>