Samba 4 is going to kill me!

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 13:30 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 07:31 -0800, jimc wrote:
> > I have been arguing with Samba 4 since October ninth. I have not been 
> > able to get it to work.
> I take it that you have been following
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO to the letter, using a
> copy of the Samba 4.0.0 tarball?
> > I have tried Mint, Ubuntu, and I am currently running opensuse.
> Samba issues are (almost) never the result of the distribution, if you
> build from source, and I would never recommend flipping whole
> distributions while trying to debug an issue, unless a developer
> indicates a specific incomparability.  

+1 +1 +1  Distro-hoping is a tremendous waste of time; and doesn't solve
problems.

Do some basic stuff like making sure you don't have other services
running that will conflict;  such as Samba, OpenLDAP, bind, or NDS.

"netstat --tcp --listen --program"

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA