[Samba] Samba 4.19 Support Directory Schema Version

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Aug 1 08:51:01 UTC 2023



On 01/08/2023 09:46, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 09:36 +0100, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>
>> On 01/08/2023 09:26, Andrew Bartlett via samba wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2023-08-01 at 05:09 -0300, Anderson Sampaio Mello via samba
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi samba team.
>>>>
>>>> The release notes for version 4.19 state that samba will support functional
>>>> level 2016.
>>>
>>> Support is to perhaps overstate it, but we can claim to be 2016.  We
>>> haven't finished all the parts.
>>>
>>>> My question is whether it will also support Directory Schema Version 88 or
>>>> 87 or both?
>>>
>>> Schema 2019 is schema 88 and this is the default for Samba 4.19.
>>>
>>> Andrew Bartlett
>>>
>>
>> Hi Andrew, I am struggling to understand this, if I go here:
>>
>> https://git.samba.org/?p=samba.git;a=tree;f=source4/setup/ad-schema;h=beeca80c417b7a4eca8baf77274b7b77ea87fe9d;hb=refs/heads/v4-19-test
>>
>> Which I believe is what will become 4.19.0 when it is released.
>>
>> I cannot see there any mention of of 2019, the latest appears to be
>> 2016, which would be schema 87.
> 
> The filename style changed, see the files tagged v1903:
> 
> as referenced from python/samba/schema.py
>       "2019": ("AD_DS_Attributes_Windows_Server_v1903.ldf",
>                  "AD_DS_Classes_Windows_Server_v1903.ldf",
>                  88),
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 

Ah, obvious, when you know :-)

Wouldn't it be better to use something like:

AD_DS_Attributes_Windows_Server_Schema_88.ldf ?

Rowland



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