Hi Robert, On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:56:48AM +0100, rruegner wrote: > Hi Guenther, > as Suse released just their own packs can you describe > whats the difference between their packs and sernets?
Sure: Initially, SerNet started to deliver samba3-rpms for the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 at a time when SuSE was unable to do so. Quickly our customers demanded support-services for our packages, so that we now have long-term maintained and fully supported Samba3-RPMs for a variety of platforms. Basically the main difference (and this what we call SerNet-style) is that we ship binaries that are statically linked against the most recent and stable Heimdal Kerberos Library. This gains us independence from vendor-supplied Kerberos-libraries and enables us to provide a working Active Directory-Integration. To give an example: we do not suffer from a nasty bug that is present in heimdal-0.6.1rc3 and that causes pretty much all samba binaries that deal with memory-credential-caches to segfault. Additionally we ship some heimdal-enhancements that ease integration (e.g. transparent fallback from udp to tcp when acquiring kerberos tickets if required by a Windows KDC without the need to flag each kdc with a tcp-transport in /etc/krb5.conf). Apart from that, both package-flavours are rather similiar (they are derived from the same source). Hopefully this explained a bit the effort of our own packaging. Guenther -- Guenther Deschner Samba Team SerNet GmbH - Goettingen [EMAIL PROTECTED],org [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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