Added note about the support end of Samba 3 to WHATSNEW.TXT

Min Wai Chan dcmwai at gmail.com
Thu Nov 6 17:29:45 MST 2014


Just remove mit krb and use heimdal krb OR use the internal heimdal library

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 5:19 AM, Sonic <sonicsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> There's still the heimdal/mit kerberos issue that prevents samba-4
> installs on some distros. For example, on my Gentoo install, since I
> need mit krb5 on my system I cannot install samba-4 as it requires
> heimdal and the two cannot be installed at the same time. It's crazy
> that this issue has gone on so long.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2014 at 08:50:55PM +0100, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> >> +
> >> +IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THE SUPPORT END OF SAMBA 3
> >> +=================================================
> >> +
> >> +With the final release of Samba 4.2, the last series of Samba 3 has
> >> +become discontinued! People still running 3.6 or a previous version,
> >> +should consider moving to a more recent and maintained version
> >> +(4.0 - 4.2). But one of the common misconceptions is, that Samba 4.x
> >> +automatically means "Active Directory only": This is wrong!
> >> +
> >> +Acting as an Active Directory Domain Controller is one of the
> enhancements,
> >> +included in Samba 4.0 and later. But 4.0 was just the next release
> >> +after the 3.6 series and contained all features of the previous ones -
> >> +including the NT4-style (classic) domain support. This means you can
> >> +update a Samba 3.x NT4-style PDC to 4.x, like you've updated in the
> >> +past (e. g. from 3.4.x to 3.5.x). You won't have to move your NT4-style
> >> +domain to an Active Directory!
> >
> >> +And of course the possibility remains unchanged, to setup a new
> NT4-style
> >> +PDC with Samba 4.x, like done in the past (e. g. with openLDAP
> backend).
> >
> > The above isn't good English. I'd recommend rewording to:
> >
> > "The code suppoting NT4-style PDC's remains unchanged in Samba 4.x,
> > so you are still able to setup a new NT4-style PDC, exactly
> > the way it was done in Samba 3.6 or earlier versions (e. g. with
> > a shared openLDAP backend)."
>


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