[Samba] Which Linux best suits Samba3?

Gémes Géza geza at kzsdabas.sulinet.hu
Sat Nov 22 08:13:03 GMT 2003


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.Andrew Bartlett írta:
| On Sat, 2003-11-22 at 05:40, Eric Geater 11/18/03 wrote:
|
|>In a discussion with one of the main answer people, of whose time I am
|>greatly appreciative, it was suggested that some of my problem (or
|>solution) may be to run Samba on a distro that's better suited for it.
|>Problem is, I don't have the time nor the inclination to download a
|>bunch of distros just to install, test, fdisk, repeat.
|>
|>So I ask. what is a recommended recent distro that works well with Samba
|>3?  Drake?  Debian?  SuSE?  RH9?  All answers welcome, with explanations
|>or not.
|
|
| A particular point to consider is the native support for MIT kerberos
| 1.3.1, or the right Heimdal version.
|
| Fedora Core 1 has this, and I think the latest SUSE does, Debian Testing
| and Debain Unstable do have the right krb5, but naturally Debian Stable
| does not. In particular, note RH9 does NOT, and this can get in your
| way.
|
| Andrew Bartlett
|
|
Mandrake 9.2 also has them + native support for acls (even right after
installation if you use the XFS filesystem, which supports acls, without
any special mounting option, like ext2/3 does)

Best Regards

Geza Gemes
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