[Samba] Distro and release recommended

[Sergio Belkin]

El jue., 12 de jul. de 2018 3:18 p.m., Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> escribió:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 15:08:57 -0300
> Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > El jue., 12 jul. 2018 a las 11:57, Rowland Penny via samba (<
> > samba at lists.samba.org>) escribió:
> >
> > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 11:44:47 -0300
> > > Sergio Belkin <sebelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > El jue., 12 jul. 2018 a las 9:44, Rowland Penny via samba (<
> > > > samba at lists.samba.org>) escribió:
> > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 09:34:59 -0300
> > > > > Sergio Belkin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi community,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'd like to deploy a SAMBA4 as a Active Directory Domain
> > > > > > Controller. It's for around 30 domain users and 60 hosts.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > AFAIK CentOS package does not support AD DC role,
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I thought in Debian, but the release available in their
> > > > > > repo's is 4.5.x. So would you recommend:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > - Compiling from sources?
> > > > > > - To use backports
> > > > > > - Choose some other distro?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So, in short, what distro and release do you recommend me?
> > > > >
> > > > > Debian Stretch
> > > > > But use Louis Van Belle's repo:
> > > > >
> > > > > http://apt.van-belle.nl/
> > > > >
> > > > > The Packages also work with Devuan.
> > > > >
> > > > > Rowland
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > Are they ready for production?
> > >
> > > Well, Louis uses them in production. He creates them for his own
> > > use in his establishment/company and very graciously makes them
> > > available for others to use. I don't know how many people use them,
> > > but I believe they are quite popular. I am sure Louis would be more
> > > than willing to enlighten you more on his packages, but he is on
> > > holiday (oops sorry, vacation) at the moment.
> > >
> > > Rowland
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Nice, and what about Fedora AD, anyone has implemented?
> >
> >
>
> You want to use Fedora in production ??
>
> There may be available Samba packages for Fedora (If there are, I
> don't know of any, but then, I don't use Fedora), but they will
> probably use MIT kerberos and there are still drawbacks with using MIT.
>
> Rowland
>
It was just a question :)