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[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 07:00:12AM -0500, José A. Rivera wrote:
> 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.

Having that one last sentence that says "It can also be a domain controller"
makes it sound a bit like an add-on feature, while it is actually a
major and integral part of Samba.

What about:

   Samba is an important component to seamlessly integrate Linux/Unix Servers and
   Desktops into Active Directory environments. It can function both as a
   domain controller or as a regular domain member.

Jelmer

> 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
> >