No, I have not tried. We are running a rather big project here (plus all the other ongoing stuff) so I cannot spend some time on this, even if I wanted to. The progress in the Samba4 stuff that would rather be of interest for me is the Group Policy implementation and the full NTFS semantics ... that would make admin so much easier, especially when migrating to Win7. As for the LDAP server ... there are very conflicting messages, indeed. The samba team would need to provide means to turn the "external" LDAP port off, would they? I have an openLDAP server running on the same machine as my current samba3x installation ... but yes, it would be cool if one could use the LDAP backend of the Samba4 server to hook mail/external authentication to it. J On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:13:34AM +1100, Peter Ross (Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de) wrote:
On Thu, 15 Nov 2012, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
Still using Redhat and CentOS (5.9 and 6.3) and Samba (samba3x).
Did you try Samba 4?
There is RC5 out (RC 6 and final release following this year according to plan:-)
I am very keen to use it but am a bit shy to try because of the ongoing changes. It looks as the end result may be a mix of "old" samba3 and "new" samba4 binaries, and it may not even clear yet what to choose at the end.
The information about support for external LDAP is conflicting. A (probably outdated?) wiki page states that external LDAP will not be supported - while people on the technical mailing list seem to run it and contribute.
I also cannot find out whether I can extend the schema of the internal server to suit other needs (e.g. a mail server).
Using FreeBSD and ZFS adds to the complexity from my side.. I may give it a try next week if I find the time.
I am keen to replace the running samba3 server and establish a new samba4 server running as an AD server as well.
Regards Peter
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