[Samba] Wiki should have Readme First

Justin Clacherty justin at redfish.com.au
Wed Mar 12 19:01:53 MDT 2014


> Sent: Thursday, 13 March 2014 10:08 AM
> 
> There is one technical reason that I know of. For an AD style DC, the nmbd
> daemon is not run. So browsing will not be available. If you force nmbd to run
> along with the samba daemon, they will both try to perform some of the
> same functions with bad ressults.

I don't think nmbd is required for browsing on any Windows OS released after XP is it?  Given that XP will be losing support soon(ish) this probably isn't an issue.

> 
> > In case Klaus is right (I cannot judge..) I wonder whether the "one
> > machine advice" should be:
> >
> > "To run a  SME server (directory service and file server on the same
> > box) it is recommended to run a NT style domain."
> 
> I am not sure that running a NT style domain can be recommended.
> 

Agreed.


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