Question about things on TODO list

[Rowland Penny]

On 17/10/15 04:05, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:18 PM, John Lewis <oflameo2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Has anyone started working on these?
>>
>>    * Support RODC
>>    * RFC 2307 in samba-tool
>>    * Add cifsfs+rsync interim script for group policy replication
>>
>>
> Hi John,
>
> That interim rsync script has been on the list forever.  I think now
> that we've got the details on the GP replication protocol, we should
> stay away from a stop gap measure that would be "good enough" and
> never get replaced.  I looked at it about two years ago or so, but the
> amount of domain knowledge and protocol knowledge was more than I
> could hope learn and implement cleanly in any reasonable amount of
> time.  I'd probably still be working on it.
> RODC support has had some work done, but I can't recall who was
> looking at that or where they're at with it.  I'm reasonably certain
> there's a git branch around somewhere that has parts of the RODC
> implemented if it hasn't made it to master yet.
>
> No idea on RFC 2307 in the samba-tool, but that's probably a very
> approachable topic if you're familiar with Python.  The best place to
> start would be dropping into #samba-technical over on EFNET.  I think
> the samba-tool stuff is Jelmer's domain, but I seem to recall a few
> people patching it somewhat recently.

It all depends on what you mean by RFC2307, I submitted patches to make 
samba-tool work in the same way as ADUC and they were rejected, because 
they worked just like ADUC.

Rowland

>
> There's also an item not on that list that has been getting the bump
> from releases since the dawn of the Unix epoch - one way domain
> trusts.  That's been on the back burner since around 4.0 if it's
> something you're interested in.
>
> That's all I know off the top of my head and I'm not sure that info is
> entirely accurate or timely, but a trip over to the IRC channel would
> verify or refute this info.  Hope that helps!
>