[Samba] Samba 4 technical documentation

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2012-12-29 at 18:21 +0100, Markus Schaufler wrote:
> Hi Newsgroup,
> 
> I want to write a technical thesis about Samba 4 and need more detailed
> infos about samba's own implementations of ldap, kerberos, bind, etc. and
> the differences from the common implementations.
> 
> Obviously I'm to stupid to find it for myself so I would be very grateful
> for any help, links, etc.

There is some stuff in the wiki, but there isn't a great trove of this
already written.  You could certainly spend some time reading the mail
archives and commit logs, but this not a structured source of
information. 

I've written about our LDAP backend experiment in the FAQ:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/FAQ

I've written elsewhere about our decision to use Heimdal (much
criticised a the time, and so I think I wrote some long mails about).
There may also be stuff in the SambaXP presentation archives.

http://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/abartlet_thesis.pdf is old, but
probably has the most extensive backround in a single spot that you are
likely to find.  

Metze also wrote up a thesis, much more detailed than mine, and we got
the original german translated into english:
http://www.samba.org/~metze/presentations/2007/thesis/StefanMetzmacher_Bachelorthesis_ENG_Draft-9811557.pdf

I hope these links help,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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