Samba 4 support

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Dec 10 13:49:10 UTC 2014


On 12/10/2014 07:11 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
> On 10 December 2014 at 08:38,  <J.Witvliet at mindef.nl> wrote:
>> Indeed,
>>
>> At FOSDEM, two years ago (or is it already three) at de samba-devroom they say that with samba4 you could do a seamless switch from Microsoft-AD to samba4,  and back.
>> All major distro's fail to do so, because of the HEIMDAL / MIT issue ...
>>
>> It looks like this issue is more difficult to solve than the transition to system.
>>
> This is being worked on.
>
> There are changes that have been happening on the Samba Technical list
> to allow the AD functionality with MIT.

I think I am on a Samba users list, not development.  Been plowing 
through that list to find discussions to help me.  Not always so easy.

So IF I am starting out fresh.  Have no interest in interoperating with 
any MS AD servers, only Win clients.  Will what exists with the MIT 
libraries work?  Or am I asking for trouble for when they switch?




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