[Samba] Support of NTFRS, SYSVOL replication and DFS-R

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Jun 23 15:18:11 MDT 2014


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:58:16PM +0000, Jochen Wezel - CompuMaster GmbH wrote:
> When does File Replication using NTFRS or DFS-R will be availabe? Does anybody already work on this item?

Not yet. Would love to see some work on this but I
don't know of anyone currently doing so. If I'm
wrong please let me know :-).

> Here would be some first documentation for this team in case it hasn't started yet:
> - NTFRS: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc759297(v=ws.10).aspx
> - SYSVOL replication: http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/dd640019(v=ws.10).aspx
> - NTFRS migration to DFS-R: http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/dd641227(v=ws.10).aspx
> 
> DFS-R replication of SYSVOL folder requires all domain controllers using Win2008 instead of Win2003 (which only supports NTFRS). I expect this is at least one of the main reasons for MS to make a difference between the domain compatibility 2003 and domain compatibility 2008 setting?!

If anyone wants to take this on we'd be very interested
getting it merged into mainline Samba !

Cheers,

	Jeremy.


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