[Samba] Samba documentation team

[Jonathan Buzzard]

On 03/04/14 11:49, Klaus Hartnegg wrote:
>
>> How about removing anything to do with setting up a NT4 domain and
>> restricting mention of it to migrating from an NT4 domain to an AD
>> domain.
>
> The documentation should document the product. A large part of the
> product is non-AD, for very good reasons. The AD part is not even
> complete yet. It is unrealistic to assume that a large fraction of
> the users will switch to AD mode anytime soon.
>

It is unrealistic of users to continue to expect NT4 domains to work 
properly in Windows 7 onwards. You have to roll out nasty registry hacks 
that degrade security in order to do so for starters. For all we know 
Microsoft may (and really should) pull it completely from the next 
version of Windows.

The primary reason as I see it for the NT4 domain stuff in Samba is to 
smooth the migration to a Samba AD.

At the very least any section on setting up a NT4 domain should come 
with prominent and repeated warnings not to start down the path of a new 
one, and you should be migrating to a AD based domain as soon as possible.

JAB.

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Jonathan A. Buzzard                 Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk
Fife, United Kingdom.