[CentOS] Samba4 questions

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Tue Apr 22 13:59:03 UTC 2014


Am 18.04.2014 17:49, schrieb Steve Campbell:
> I'm a little new to Samba when used as more than just a simple place to
> mount a single user to a single share, but we're now getting ready to
> replace our Netware servers with Samba, and I guess that means Active
> Directory DC.
>
> As I read more and more about this beast, I keep finding pages that
> indicate the samba4 rpms supplied with the Centos/RH distribution are
> not the full version and that I should get them from either samba.org or
> certain other sources that provide complete versions. These pages are a
> little dated, but not that old.
>
> Can anyone provide insight into what they've done in this situation and
> whether the samba rpms are now full versions? Most of what I have found
> on the web is dated around when samba4 just came out of beta through a
> little later.
<snip>
One question: why do you need samba 4? We're running 3.6.9 (the current)
on CentOS 6.5, in a moderately complex environment, and we connect to AD
(and kerberos, I think - I don't normally touch samba).

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