[Samba] About s3fs in samba4

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 20:14 +0200, Gémes Géza wrote:
> 2012-08-17 17:31 keltezéssel, felix at epepm.cupet.cu írta:
> > Reading Whatsnew.txt in samba I understand that If I use s3fs, as it is
> > set by default in the provision step, I won't be able to modify GPOs
> > later, right?
> > So I have a couple of questions:
> >
> > - What's the advantage of using s3fs over ntvfs in new installations?
> > - If I'm planning to deploy a new Domain, probably needing to change GPOs
> > later, should I select ntvfs???
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Felix
> >
> If you use s3fs, the only thing you may need to do (first test if it is 
> still necessary it was with the git version a week ago) is to give group 
> Domain Admins, full access to the sysvol share (and recursively all 
> subfolders) from a Windows domain member computer (loged in of course as 
> a member of the Domain Admins group).
> The major problem with ntvfs is that it isn't actively developed anymore 
> and hasn't received those protocol dialect updates (smb2-3) which were 
> introduced in Vista and 7, and thus it may have compatibility problems 
> later (no known problem exist so far)

Thanks Geza Gemes!  This describes the issue and workaround very nicely!

Andrew Bartlett

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