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OK, If you are reading this I obviously have your attention, so please tune in very carefully!

Samba4 RPMS have been built for ClearOS 5.1 RC2. This package has NOT been tested - it took a long time to get it to build cleanly.

If you are interested in testing Samba4 - the Active Director Server, please respond to this message. Before you do though, please note the following caveats:

1. Samba-3.x must be completely uninstalled BEFORE installation of Samba4.

2. Samba4 is NOT a replacement for Samba3's file and print services

3. Installation will require a LOT of manual tweaking and messing around. We will need to work together (this forum is a good place to do that) to figure out what needs to be changed in the packaging.

4. We will prepare updates soon after future Samba4 alpha releases are issued by the Samba Team. Each one will cause your hair to fall out, your skin to wrinkle up, your clock to cease ticking, your cat to lose its meow, and your bank to over-draw you account.

Now that you have read the caveats, please note that the binary RPM is 350MB and it unpacks to a little over 1.2GB.

So how well does it work? Well, I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 domain member and can use its Active Directory User manager to manage ADS Users. Windows 7 clients can join the domain without any registry changes. Samba3 can be a domain member and is the proposed file server for the new ADS solution framework.

There is a LOT of work ahead, but those who want the bleeding edge on steroids will not be able to resist getting their hands on this code.

OK - now you have full disclosure, tell us if you are interested in helping to test this new code. If the response is great enough the RPMs will be added to the Plus repository - Right Peter?

Thank you for doing this John! We appreciate all the hard work and processor time consumed on you uber fast build system to get this rolled.

Happy to test it out! count me in

John,

Is v4 of any value to us who are using CC as a PDC with Win 7, but not using AD? More importantly, is it of any value to you to have folks like us test it? I'd be happy to help if so.

Drew

Drew Vonada-Smith wrote:
John,

Is v4 of any value to us who are using CC as a PDC with Win 7, but not using AD? More importantly, is it of any value to you to have folks like us test it? I'd be happy to help if so.

Drew

Drew,

Feedback is ALWAYS welcome. Samba4 needs more user feedback to get it accelerated forwards. On the other hand, I would not want to distract you (or anyone else) from income earning activities. Samba4 can be a huge distraction if what you want is a production environment. But it can be a lot of fun too.

- John T.

Tim Burgess wrote:
Happy to test it out! count me in

Awesome! I just heard from Peter that Samba4 has been added to the repository. Here is his instruction (but don't be surprised if he chimes in with better info):

<quote>
There was a missing dependency -- perl(Parse::Yapp). I built the perl-Parse-Yapp RPM and all is well now. Once the FTP servers sync up at the top of the hour, you will be able to install Samba4 with the following command:

yum --enablerepo=base-plus install samba4
</unquote>

Awesome!

Don't forget - first uninstall all Samba3 packages!

- John T.

Great! thanks, will have a bash with it

Also want to give it a try.

Only i think i need help from the experienced people. I'm still a Linux newbie but love to play, experiment and test Linux stuff! I think this is a good way to learn more from Linux.

what i did is yum remove samba and then i did yum list | less. There are still packages installed:

samba-common
samba-client
samba-schema
samba-winbind

did yum remove package

but when i do yum --enablerepo=base-plus install samba4 i'll get these error's:



How to solve this?

All Samba packages must be completely removed before installation of Samba4.

Here is the list of packages that will conflict with Samba4:

samba-common
samba-schema
samba
samba-client
app-samba-api
app-samba
samba-winbind
libtalloc
tdb-tools
libtdb

Only then will it be possible to install Samba4 without conflic (oops, miinimum conflict). On Monday Dec 21, 2009, I will publish a basic step-by-step guid to getting Samba4 Active Directory Server running. Please note that this will not at all integrate with the LDAP directory on ClearOS - so it too will need to be shut down.

Here are the ports Active Directory must control:

Starting Nmap 5.00 ( nmap.org ) at 2009-12-20 08:29 CST
Interesting ports on aligata (172.16.10.25):
Not shown: 986 closed ports
PORT STATE SERVICE
...
53/tcp open domain
88/tcp open kerberos-sec
111/tcp open rpcbind
135/tcp open msrpc
139/tcp open netbios-ssn
389/tcp open ldap
445/tcp open microsoft-ds
464/tcp open kpasswd5
...

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.23 seconds


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- John T.