[Samba] Server 2012 functional level for Samba v4.6?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 23:17 +0200, Peter Tuharsky via samba wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> there is not much happening on this topic in mailing list, so I hope 
> there is a base to revive this old thread. I see that Samba is making 
> great progress, but as usually, it is hard to keep up with Microsoft 
> changes.
> 
> So far, Samba supports 2008 R2 DFL, and has only experimental support 
> for 2012 R2 DFL. However, the demand for DFL 2012 R2 will be rising 
> considerably I think, since Microsoft ends support of Windows Server 
> 2008 R2 by january 2020 (thats 9 months). That will leave the 2012 R2 
> the oldest supported Windows Server version soon, thus probably 
> generating more user cases where Samba would be desired to support the 
> DFL 2012 R2.
> 
> Only thoughts...
> 
> I know there is huge step between 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 DFL by the means 
> of engineering needed. Anyway, congratulations for all the good work, 
> Samba team!

We are trying to work towards this.  There is considerable engineering
required, but progress is being made on some of the dependent tasks. 

See for example:

https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/merge_requests/360

We would value assistance in this area.

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett
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