[Samba] cutting corners (4.10.2 on el7.6)

[vincent at cojot.name]

Hi Garming,

Thanks for taking the time to enlighten me. I do happen to have two DC's 
and in my limited testing, 4.10.2 seems to function properly as an AD/DC 
on el7.6 with the packages I built. As I'm not using those DC's for file 
serving in a clustered setup, it is also my interpretation that I can do 
without ctdb (this one had a specific requirement for a higher version of 
a lib which I didn't have) for basic AD/DC functionality.

I've tested RSAT, drs replication, and 
basic functionality and that seems quite positive so far.

I've posted my rpms/srpms/spec files at: 
http://nova.polymtl.ca/~coyote/dist/samba/samba-4.10.2/RHEL7

Kind regards,

Vincent

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On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, Garming Sam via samba wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't think any of those matter for your use.
>
> An older version of GnuTLS means we likely just use internally
> implemented functions (which we are trying to deprecate though). I don't
> know exactly what DMAPI is used for, but it's not a default
> configuration and file server clustering doesn't have any relevance for
> just an AD DC.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Garming
>
> On 16/04/19 10:57 AM, Vincent S. Cojot via samba wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm not well versed in the samba code base so I'm asking here.. :)
>> I only wanted to run a small AD/DC for my SOHO (1 spouse, 3 kids, 1
>> dog & 1 cat).
>>
>> I've managed to build 4.10.2 on rhel7.6 with gnutls-3.3.29 and
>> python-2.7.
>> (this required an updated cmocka, which in turn required an updated
>> cmake) but...
>>
>> building without testsuite and without clustering (ctdb) allows
>> samba-4.10.2 to compile with this old python (2.7.5) and gnutls (3.3.29)
>>
>> During the configure/rpmbuild phase, I noticed those messages:
>> ------------------------------------------
>> No gnutls support for AEAD encryption
>> Building without DMAPI support: no suitable DMAPI library found
>> WARNING: ans1Parser hasn't been found! Please install it (e.g.
>> libtasn1-bin)
>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>> I wonder if these might be 'impactful'.. Would someone enlighten me on
>> what purpose those serve? (i.e: is it a show-stopper?)
>> Also, I've had to build without 'clustering' (ctdb) support.. is that
>> a big issue?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Vincent
>>
>> Refs:
>> http://nova.polymtl.ca/~coyote/dist/samba/samba-4.10.2/RHEL7
>>
>
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