Overview
The emergence of Samba 4 will bring on support for Active Directory. The software should still be considered alpha!
Walkthrough Video
Andrew Tridgell, one of the core Samba developers, posted a technical walkthrough video. You can find it in this blog post.
Alpha 1 Implementation
Install
To get the ball rolling, an alpha 1 implementation was released in December 2009. The original Samba 4 build and announcement was made by Samba team member and ClearFoundation director John Terpstra. Here is the original forum thread. To summarize the installation instructions:
- Install a ClearOS system with only the graphic console tool feature enabled.
- Install the Samba 4 alpha using the following command:
yum --enablerepo=base-plus install samba4
Then you need to set up and provision the configuration:
mkdir /etc/samba4/samba provision
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| Realm | Kerberos realm, for example MYCOMPANY.LAN |
| Domain | The Windows-style domain, for example MYCOMPANY |
| Server Role | The role of the server, choose “dc” here |
At this point, you can skip straight to Step 5 in the Samba 4 Howto documentation and start tinkering.
Next Steps
By tweaking the ClearOS system just a little bit, it should be possible to have a Samba 4 implementation running with most of the ClearOS features still intact. A feature request has been created for ClearOS 5.2.
