Samba 4 support

Robin Laing MeSat at TelusPlanet.net
Wed Dec 10 02:47:21 UTC 2014


On 2014-12-09 18:43, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I was asking about Samba 4 on the Samba list and got the following
> response about Fedora and Samba4:
>
> "If you look thru previous posts to this forum you will see that Samba 4
> uses Heimdal Kerberos libraries , while Fedora uses MIT kerberos
> libraries, so you need to recompile Samba 4 from scratch will all the
> appropriate dependencies.  I have not done this. Samba 4 as an AD DC
> includes its own LDAP server."
>
> So what is the story?  Does Fedora work for a Samba AD?
>
> Though, at this point, I am looking very strongly at staying with an
> NTDomain setup.  I am getting strong recommendations for AD being a
> separate system from the file server, and I only want one system.
>
>

I have used Samba4 with an AD network.  Not that much due to the way our 
network is managed.

Robin



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