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

[Data Control Systems - Mike Elkevizth]

Hi Rowland,

Do you think it would help if more people commented on the bug?  It hasn't
had any activity for over a year now.  That's not very encouraging...

Mike E.


On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Rowland penny <rpenny at samba.org> wrote:

> On 28/07/16 16:14, Data Control Systems - Mike Elkevizth wrote:
>
>> Just to throw in my two cents, I too would love to see winbind on a DC
>> "act" the same as it does on a non-DC.  I use my DCs as file servers, but
>> have had to use a number of workarounds because of how winbind acts
>> differently on a DC. I've not only had trouble with the idmappings, but the
>> fact that it doesn't honor all of the rfc2307 attributes.  For instance, I
>> have a couple of users that use a file synchronization script to keep files
>> between the server and their laptops in sync.  This script requires them to
>> logon to the file server (which is also a DC).  Because winbind on the DC
>> doesn't honor my rfc2307 shell settings, I have to revert to using the
>> "template shell =" setting in smb.conf which means now that all of my users
>> can logon to the DC even if I don't want them to all have access to that.
>> I really don't understand why they don't act the same.?
>>
>>
>>
> There is a bug report about this:
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10886
>
> Rowland
>
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