[Samba] WMI - SAMBA4

[Andrew Bartlett]

Thanks for your thanks, and yes it is great that the Samba project is
maintained as outside of the control of a single commercial interest.

I would however point out that Samba is only possible because of the
ongoing support of our commercial support providers and vendors who
employ most of the active developers and therefore their customers who sponsor the vast majority of new features and maintenance.

I would encourage every organisation of your scale to ensure you are
supporting Samba by having a support contract with a friendly Samba
commercial support provider and to pitch in for new features that you
need from time to time.  Even better if those features are things you
can't do with a Windows AD, or are painful but we could do more
elegantly. 

Thanks,

Andrew Bartlett

On Wed, 2024-06-05 at 21:16 -0300, Gabriel wrote:
> Thank you for your response. Fortunately, Samba4 has a community like
> yours that maintains this great project without commercial interests.
> Currently, I am in charge of a Samba4 AD infrastructure with 20,000
> active users. The only negative point we have found is the
> integration with commercial products, which are always prepared for
> AD.
> 
> Thank you again for your dedication and effort.
> 
>  Gabriel C.
> 
> 
> El mié, 5 de jun de 2024, 17:00, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org>
> escribió:
> > On Wed, 2024-06-05 at 10:20 -0300, Gabriel via samba wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > We have implemented SAMBA4 AD version 4.19.2 and need to
> > integrate
> > > trademarked firewall and proxy services.
> > > 
> > > One of the services we are looking to integrate is Check Point’s
> > Next
> > > Generation Firewall with Identity Awareness (
> > > 
> > https://www.checkpoint.com/es/next-generation-firewall/identity-awareness/
> > > ).
> > > 
> > > I have been investigating whether there is a service similar to
> > WMI
> > > Active
> > > Directory in SAMBA4 (
> > > 
> > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/mmc/wmi-and-active-directory-interoperability
> > > ),
> > > but I have not found anything.
> > 
> > No, we don't have a WMI client or server.  
> > 
> > Just to help those asking a different question who come access this
> > post, there is an old WMI client out there, wmic, based on an early
> > Samba alpha, but due to a very unfortunate sequence of events, it
> > was
> > forked in secret, licensed GPLv2 only and then only later became
> > public
> > after we deleted all the required infrastructure.  
> > 
> > Some have asked us to revive it, but the effort is considerable,
> > sadly. 
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
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