[Samba] Samba 4 on Production

[German Molano]

Horacio

I had a Samba4 (4.0.0beta2-GIT) installation in production, with 40 
something workstations with WinXP, Vista y 7  and a couple servers with 
windows 2008 and 2003 server. To this time it had worked pretty fine, i 
only have some issues related with ACL, some of them more related with 
mixed permissions on Linux filesystem. We use GPO to control some 
windows features at workstation level and the WSUS policies it works as 
expected. On your enviroment i think that should consider some kind 
redundancy, maybe a slave DC.

German Molano

El 23/07/12 10:13, Horacio Lo Brutto escribió:
> We're involved in a project that the requirements could be satisfied
> with both samba3 and 4. Anyway I am testing what can be done with
> Samba4 and after following the tutorial published in the official
> wiki, I was able to create my test domain, and join WinXP and Win7
> machines to it without a problem.
>
> I still need to test the GPO functionality, and some other stuff, but
> before continuing with that testing, I would like to as you, what do
> you thing about using samba4 in a network with about 700 computers
> (mixed between WinXP, Vista, 7 and 2000) and about the same amount of
> users.
>
> Will it be stable enough? can I 'trust' samba for such network?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
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