[Samba] Samba4: rfc2307 compatibility with Samba3

[steve]

On 12/08/12 17:45, Gémes Géza wrote:
> 2012-08-12 16:26 keltezéssel, steve írta:
>> On 12/08/12 15:28, Gémes Géza wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> Hi Geza, hi everyone
>> OK, conclusion.
>>
>> I have a single box with s4 DC. The same same box with a Vbox guest
>> running S3.6, and NFS. The S4 DC becomes a NFS client when I mount the
>> shares from the Vbox guest on it. I create users and their home
>> directories on the DC. Files are served from the S3 Vbox guest. The DC
>> has no shares apart from [global], [netlogon] and [sysvol]. The s3
>> guest carries all the shares I would normally add after the 3 default
>> DC shares. Instead of using the hostname of the DC when I mount shares
>> on remote clients, I use the hostname of the S3 Guest.
>>
>> How am I doing so far?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>
> Hi,
>
> IMHO what you've written could be a short HOWTO for using Samba4 in a
> network

Geza,
How do I tell xp and 7 clients to look at the virtual s3.6 machine as 
fileserver?
Cheers,
Steve