[Samba] NEWS : 2.2.3a, Status of the SAMBA_2_2, future plans, etc...

[Gerald Carter]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Sean Elble wrote:

> Gerry,
> 
> Just one quick question (I hope): will HEAD support
> creating an Active Directory domain? In other words,
> will HEAD be able to support Active Directory even
> without Windows 2000 AD servers present? A question
> that may come up is is that functionality even
> required, especially with the LDAP capabilities of
> Samba taken into consideration, but I think being able
> to create/control an AD domain would really be
> beneficial to the community as a whole. And a big
> thanks to the Samba group; 2.2.3 works great for me,
> with Win2k, SP2 clients! ;-)

We all want to do this so it is definitely on the rdar screen.
However, our plans (last time we all talked) was to support
win2k member server (security = ads in HEAD) first.  
Windows 2000 DC capabilites are down the road a bit I think.
But then things can move really fast at times :-)





cheers, jerry
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