[Samba] Best distro to use samba AD DC

[Rowland Penny]

On 16/08/14 02:24, Chan Min Wai wrote:
> Finally...
>
> The issue I've see is show now gone...
> let me test more and see what are the result...
>
> wrong LDflags... What the hack...
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 8:27 AM, Stuart Naylor <
> stuartiannaylor at thursbygarden.org> wrote:
>
>> I like ArchLinux as the documentation is just really good to get you up
>> and running.
>>
>> Its this guy called Tobias Powalowski who does a great job.
>>
>> I suggest having a look for the documentation and then move to the distro
>> of choice.
>>
>> The packages are really up to date. Build Date: 2014-08-01 18:12 UTC
>>
>>
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Samba_4_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Active_Directory_Integration
>>
>>
>> http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/
>>
>> You need to remember while installing backports you need to use apt-get -t
>> squeeze-backports install "package" or you will pull in the standard
>> package.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original message-----
>>> From:Harry Jede <walk2sun at arcor.de>
>>> Sent: Friday 15th August 2014 16:37
>>> To: samba at lists.samba.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Samba] Best distro to use samba AD DC
>>>
>>> On 17:08:24 wrote Chan Min Wai:
>>>> Dear All,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using gentoo as samba AD DC but was having issue with ldbedit or
>>>> ldbsearch.
>>>>
>>>> And some small glitch.
>>>>
>>>> Can help to advise a better distro to use as an AD DC?
>>> I use debian 7.6 installed with a netinst CD.
>>> Wheezy-backports has samba 4.1.9. Currenty all DC functions I have
>>> tested are working well.
>>>
>>> But,
>>> the installation I have done is different from the description in the
>>> samba wiki. The installation procedure in the wiki describes installing
>>> the sernet packages. I wish to use the debian packages.
>>>
>>> The debian package do a samba 3 compatible installation. So you get a
>>> NT4 style samba. That is fine for this distro, i.e. for all people who
>>> just want upgrade from older versions.
>>>
>>> In the next days I will write down my installation procedure.
>>>
>>>> Thank you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Chan Min Wai
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>        Harry Jede
>>>
>>>
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I suppose, I should really have posted that the best distro to use, is 
the one that you are most familiar with, but you will get better and 
faster help, if the distro is one used by a lot of people. Sadly I do 
not think that Gentoo falls into this category, samba wise ;-)

Rowland