Congratulations Samba Team!
The Samba Team has announced the release of Samba 4 Beta 1! Why is this good news? Well, Samba 4 supports Active Directory** logon protocols. In other words, Samba 4 can act as a Microsoft Active Directory server much in the way Samba 3 can act as a domain controller (PDC). That's a game changer.
Have no fear, ClearOS 6 was re-designed with Samba 4 in mind. We'll be posting more information about the ClearOS Samba 4 roadmap in the near future. For now, it's hats off to Samba!
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written by Peter Baldwin , June 18, 2012
This hasn't been discussed with the dev team, but I'm going to propose having a test version available by September. There's a big question mark with the state of the DNS integration. Right now, Samba 4 relies on "hooks" into bind. bind => do not like. There's also an initiative by a member of the Samba team to finish off a lightweight Samba DNS server.
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written by Gerry Reno , July 03, 2012
Samba 4 would be great to see. And bind isn't all that bad. Heck it's been running the vast majority of the internet name service for quite a while. Once you get it right on a fair size network one time then the light bulb comes on and you understand it.
Samba 4 would allow me to finally shutdown and retire our old Active Directory server. That would be nice.
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Samba 4 would allow me to finally shutdown and retire our old Active Directory server. That would be nice.
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Stuart :)
Took some time didn't it :), I got the feeling they where scared M$ would change the rules in win8.