[Samba] Samba4: rfc2307 compatibility with Samba3

[steve]

On 08/11/2012 01:10 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 11:21 +0200, Helmut Hullen wrote:
>> Hallo, Andrew,
>>
>> Du meintest am 11.08.12:
>>
>>>> In Samba3, I have full rfc2307 compliance via winbind where all
>>>> attributes can be obtained from AD.
>>>>
>>>> In Samba4 I only have partial rfc2307 compatibility with:
>>>> idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes
>>>> uidNumber and gidNumber can be obtained from AD but
>>>> uinxHomeDirectory and loginShell are missing.
>> [...]
>>
>>> At this stage, we still don't recommend combining file server and DC
>>> functions.  By separating these functions onto different (virtual)
>>> servers, you can avoid this issue.
>> Sorry - that sounds ugly.
>> I prefer using samba as a combined system for SOHO (especially for
>> schools). And working with several servers (especially virtual servers)
>> is not attractive for someone who looks for the server as a second or
>> third job, beneath his/her main job.
> I would rather advertise a narrower, known to work set of functionality
> than to promise broader features than we know works well in production
> experience.
>
> In particular, we know about the limitations that Steve mentions, and we
> know the workaround:  don't mix the file server and AD DC.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
>
Hi
Does this mean having one Samba4 machine as the DC and another Samba4 
(e.g. Vbox) machine joined to it as a member to act as fileserver?
Cheers,
Steve