[Samba] Samba4: rfc2307 compatibility with Samba3

[Gémes Géza]

2012-08-12 09:31 keltezéssel, steve írta:
> 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
>
If you don't want to use the second box interactively yes, if you intend 
to login there, or have home directories served from there better 
install Samba3.6 on it.

Regards

Geza