On 07/11/2013 23:38, Bevan wrote:
I'd rather run samba 4 on a distro I'm familiar with*, else you're
just changing the provider of your enclosed system.
* Debian for me, but insert whatever distro you know well here.
--
Criggie
Yeah I'm being a little arrogant, but the list's been quiet for a
bit too long.
You used to be able to install all the zentyal modules onto a Debian
system, but they went to Ubuntu - may still be possible. But you can use
their distro or a Ubuntu Server install.
Zentyal also gets a lot of other stuff running together - ldap, squid,
DNS, DHCP, VPN and so on without having to configure users,
authentication, all that sort of thing for each service. It is not just
Samba.
I am pretty sure you could just ditch the Zentyal parts of the server,
and be left with a running system. Must try it out someday.
It is also possible to make 'stubs' for services if you want to change
the more obscure settings in a configuration file.
So I don't think it is fair to call it an 'enclosed' system.
In an ideal world, the gui configuration layer would pick up changes in
the config files - so if needed, they could be edited and comments added
- and vice versa ... unfortunately not though. I once wrote a script
that took the Samba docs and produced a *very* specific XML schema - the
idea being that an xml file - easily understood by anyone who understood
a samba config file - could verified against the schema, and a config
file written. The schema contained all the info needed to produce a
management interface ... but something else came up and it got lost in
the mists of my backup system, never to be seen again.
Ahhh- fun times
--
Don Robertson
64 21 294 1452
d...@robertson.net.nz
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