[Samba] NTP Selinux Permissions

[Rowland Penny]

On 28 Jul 2018 22:16:45 -0400
Konstantin Boyandin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 28.07.2018 21:17, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On 28 Jul 2018 09:58:39 -0400
> > Konstantin Boyandin via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> On 28.07.2018 15:18, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> >>> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 19:50:55 -0500
> >>> Ivan Rojas via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> It is not recommended to install samba AD in centos, in what
> >>>> distribution is it recommended to install?
> >>>
> >>> It's not that it isn't recommended to install AD on the Centos
> >>> Samba packages, it is that you cannot (yet) set up an AD DC on the
> >>> Centos Samba packages. You may be able to find a third party repo
> >>> that contains Samba packages that will allow the creation of an AD
> >>> DC.
> >>>
> >>> If you want to try another distro, you need to select one that
> >>> isn't based on red-hat, such as debian or Devuan.
> >>>
> >>> You could always build Samba yourself.
> >>
> >> Is there a Linux distribution (such as Debian, Ubuntu - those
> >> having long-term support versions) were Samba 4 installed from
> >> official repository can set up AD DC?
> >>
> >> I recall Ubuntu 16.04' samba v4 (out of standard repository) could
> >> do that, but haven't tried that myself yet.
> >>
> >> While I definitely have some fun building packages manually, I'd
> >> prefer to avoid that wherever possible.
> > 
> > The problem with long term support, is just that, it is long term
> > support for all the packages it comes with originally. 
> > Samba is a fast moving target and things get added/updated all the
> > time, but if you are stuck with an earlier version of Samba, you do
> > not get them.
> > 
> > In my opinion, the best way forward at the moment, use debian or
> > Devuan with Louis Van Belle's repo.
> 
> On Ubuntu 18.04, Samba 4.7.6 (at the moment) is installed from
> standard repository. Is that version high enough to run Samba Active
> Domain and (more important to me) to upgrade existing NT4 domain to
> Samba AD?

At the moment, yes, but in 4 years time, it would still be 4.7.6 unless
somebody comes up with (and maintains) a ppa.

> 
> I'll proceed with Debian, as you recommended (thanks); I suppose you
> are talking about this:
> 
> http://downloads.van-belle.nl/samba4/

Yes, but the page I linked to supplies the instructions.

Rowland