[Samba] Why is Samba4 not recommended as a file server?

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Thu Jul 28 08:50:58 UTC 2016


On 28/07/16 09:43, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> You can of course export file shares from a DC. It's just that our 
> file server has seen much wider deployment as an AD member instead of 
> a DC, that's all. There is much more experience with it, and all the 
> topics around idmapping are much better known. I'm not saying that 
> they are much better implemented, it's just the better-known setup. 
> Volker 

Hi Volker, as far as I can see, the only problem is idmapping, only 
yesterday I found out that giving Domain Admins a gidNumber isn't a good 
idea, the group needs to own Policies in sysvol.

Rowland



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