SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
I like this, from the very end: Members of the Samba Team work for many of the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the SMB/CIFS protocol. We always knew that MSFT could use help documenting things, didn't we? Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM Subject: Samba 4.0 released - The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server is now available ! To: sa...@samba.org, samba-techni...@samba.org, samba-annou...@samba.org Cc: j...@samba.org Samba Team Releases Samba 4.0 = December 11th 2012. The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 4.0, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server == As the culmination of ten years' work, the Samba Team has created the first compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory protocols. Familiar to all network administrators, the Active Directory protocols are the heart of modern directory service implementations. Samba 4.0 comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the recently released Windows 8. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server provides support for features such as Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, Windows Administration tools and integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Free Software compatible services such as OpenChange. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server can also be joined to an existing Microsoft Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers can be joined to a Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, showing true peer-to-peer interoperability of the Microsoft and Samba implementations of the Active Directory protocols. Acknowledging the value of the interoperability of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, Steve van Maanen, the co-founder of Starsphere LLC, an IT services company in Tokyo, said: Thanks to Samba4, I have two fully replicating Active Directory Domain controllers that boot in under 10 seconds ! It is nice to have alternatives, and Samba4 is a great one. Upgrade scripts are also provided for organizations using the previous Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controller functionality in Samba 3.x, to allow them to migrate smoothly to Samba 4.0. Suitable for low-power and embedded applications, yet scaling to large clusters, Samba 4.0 is efficient and flexible. Its Python programming interface and administration toolkit help in enterprise deployments. Created Using Microsoft Documentation = The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers that made our implementation interoperable. Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across platforms, said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows Server. We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality. Introducing SMB2.1 File Serving Support === Samba 4.0 includes the first Free Software implementation of Microsoft's SMB2.1 file serving protocol. Building on the success of the SMB2.0 server in Samba 3.6, the Samba 4.0 file server component is an evolution of the trusted Samba file serving code that is used worldwide by vendors of file servers, such as IBM's clustered Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS), and many other commercial products. In addition, the Samba 4.0 file server contains an initial implementation of SMB3, which will be further developed in later Samba 4 releases into a fully-featured SMB3 clustered file server implementation. Future developments of our SMB3 server and client suite, in combination with our expanding number of SMB3 tests, will keep driving the performance improvements and improved compatibility with Microsoft Windows that Samba users have come to expect from our software. Integrated Clustered File Server Support Building on our success as the first commercial
Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:36:17 -0800 Subject: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I like this, from the very end: Members of the Samba Team work for many of the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the SMB/CIFS protocol. We always knew that MSFT could use help documenting things, didn't we? Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM Subject: Samba 4.0 released - The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server is now available ! To: sa...@samba.org, samba-techni...@samba.org, samba-annou...@samba.org Cc: j...@samba.org Samba Team Releases Samba 4.0 = December 11th 2012. The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 4.0, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server == As the culmination of ten years' work, the Samba Team has created the first compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory protocols. Familiar to all network administrators, the Active Directory protocols are the heart of modern directory service implementations. Samba 4.0 comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the recently released Windows 8. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server provides support for features such as Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, Windows Administration tools and integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Free Software compatible services such as OpenChange. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server can also be joined to an existing Microsoft Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers can be joined to a Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, showing true peer-to-peer interoperability of the Microsoft and Samba implementations of the Active Directory protocols. Acknowledging the value of the interoperability of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, Steve van Maanen, the co-founder of Starsphere LLC, an IT services company in Tokyo, said: Thanks to Samba4, I have two fully replicating Active Directory Domain controllers that boot in under 10 seconds ! It is nice to have alternatives, and Samba4 is a great one. Upgrade scripts are also provided for organizations using the previous Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controller functionality in Samba 3.x, to allow them to migrate smoothly to Samba 4.0. Suitable for low-power and embedded applications, yet scaling to large clusters, Samba 4.0 is efficient and flexible. Its Python programming interface and administration toolkit help in enterprise deployments. Created Using Microsoft Documentation = The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers that made our implementation interoperable. Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across platforms, said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows Server. We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality. Introducing SMB2.1 File Serving Support === Samba 4.0 includes the first Free Software implementation of Microsoft's SMB2.1 file serving protocol. Building on the success of the SMB2.0 server in Samba 3.6, the Samba 4.0 file server component is an evolution of the trusted Samba file serving code that is used worldwide by vendors of file servers, such as IBM's clustered Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS), and many other
RE: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
I intend to look into it. I have a lot of questions. But until replication is stable, I can't seriously consider it. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:36:17 -0800 Subject: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I like this, from the very end: Members of the Samba Team work for many of the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the SMB/CIFS protocol. We always knew that MSFT could use help documenting things, didn't we? Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM Subject: Samba 4.0 released - The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server is now available ! To: sa...@samba.org, samba-techni...@samba.org, samba-annou...@samba.org Cc: j...@samba.org Samba Team Releases Samba 4.0 = December 11th 2012. The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 4.0, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server == As the culmination of ten years' work, the Samba Team has created the first compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory protocols. Familiar to all network administrators, the Active Directory protocols are the heart of modern directory service implementations. Samba 4.0 comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the recently released Windows 8. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server provides support for features such as Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, Windows Administration tools and integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Free Software compatible services such as OpenChange. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server can also be joined to an existing Microsoft Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers can be joined to a Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, showing true peer-to-peer interoperability of the Microsoft and Samba implementations of the Active Directory protocols. Acknowledging the value of the interoperability of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, Steve van Maanen, the co-founder of Starsphere LLC, an IT services company in Tokyo, said: Thanks to Samba4, I have two fully replicating Active Directory Domain controllers that boot in under 10 seconds ! It is nice to have alternatives, and Samba4 is a great one. Upgrade scripts are also provided for organizations using the previous Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controller functionality in Samba 3.x, to allow them to migrate smoothly to Samba 4.0. Suitable for low-power and embedded applications, yet scaling to large clusters, Samba 4.0 is efficient and flexible. Its Python programming interface and administration toolkit help in enterprise deployments. Created Using Microsoft Documentation = The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers that made our implementation interoperable. Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across platforms, said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows Server. We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality. Introducing SMB2.1 File Serving Support === Samba 4.0 includes the first Free
Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
Exactly my thought. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Michael B. Smith mich...@smithcons.com wrote: I intend to look into it. I have a lot of questions. But until replication is stable, I can't seriously consider it. -Original Message- From: Matthew W. Ross [mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:36:17 -0800 Subject: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I like this, from the very end: Members of the Samba Team work for many of the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the SMB/CIFS protocol. We always knew that MSFT could use help documenting things, didn't we? Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM Subject: Samba 4.0 released - The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server is now available ! To: sa...@samba.org, samba-techni...@samba.org, samba-annou...@samba.org Cc: j...@samba.org Samba Team Releases Samba 4.0 = December 11th 2012. The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 4.0, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server == As the culmination of ten years' work, the Samba Team has created the first compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory protocols. Familiar to all network administrators, the Active Directory protocols are the heart of modern directory service implementations. Samba 4.0 comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the recently released Windows 8. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server provides support for features such as Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, Windows Administration tools and integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Free Software compatible services such as OpenChange. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server can also be joined to an existing Microsoft Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers can be joined to a Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, showing true peer-to-peer interoperability of the Microsoft and Samba implementations of the Active Directory protocols. Acknowledging the value of the interoperability of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, Steve van Maanen, the co-founder of Starsphere LLC, an IT services company in Tokyo, said: Thanks to Samba4, I have two fully replicating Active Directory Domain controllers that boot in under 10 seconds ! It is nice to have alternatives, and Samba4 is a great one. Upgrade scripts are also provided for organizations using the previous Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controller functionality in Samba 3.x, to allow them to migrate smoothly to Samba 4.0. Suitable for low-power and embedded applications, yet scaling to large clusters, Samba 4.0 is efficient and flexible. Its Python programming interface and administration toolkit help in enterprise deployments. Created Using Microsoft Documentation = The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers that made our implementation interoperable. Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across platforms, said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows Server. We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality. Introducing SMB2.1 File Serving Support
Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
On 11 Dec 2012 at 12:26, Matthew W. Ross wrote: I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. Me, too, for some uses. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org wrote: I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? As always, it depends. In a previous life, I deployed a few dozen Samba 3.x servers. Generally, each acting as the NTLM domain controller and file/print server for a small LAN at a small client. It did pretty well in that job. It didn't admin like an actual Win NT box, but if you grokked 'nix it made sense, and could even do a number of things that NT 4.x couldn't (easily and reliably transfer the DC functions around, for example). Third-party admin tools targeting Win NT generally didn't work, because there was no MS-Windows behind it, but again, 'nix admin tends to have a different mindset vs MSFT. Would I have tried to shoehorn a Samba NTLM DC into an existing long-term NT4 infrastructure? No, that would be entirely backwards. I might have looked to Samba to add Windows interoperability to an existing 'nix infrastructure, though. If Samba 4 can provide similar functionality for Active Directory, that's great. Small offices which would feature a single server anyway make sense. 'mix interoperability makes sense. In those cases, you don't have to worry about making Samba play nice with MS Win DCs. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
Id like to use it at home on an existing low wattage appliance like a synology nas for basic centralized logons etc From: Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org To: NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:26 PM Subject: Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:36:17 -0800 Subject: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I like this, from the very end: Members of the Samba Team work for many of the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the SMB/CIFS protocol. We always knew that MSFT could use help documenting things, didn't we? Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM Subject: Samba 4.0 released - The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server is now available ! To: sa...@samba.org, samba-techni...@samba.org, samba-annou...@samba.org Cc: j...@samba.org Samba Team Releases Samba 4.0 = December 11th 2012. The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 4.0, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server == As the culmination of ten years' work, the Samba Team has created the first compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory protocols. Familiar to all network administrators, the Active Directory protocols are the heart of modern directory service implementations. Samba 4.0 comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the recently released Windows 8. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server provides support for features such as Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, Windows Administration tools and integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Free Software compatible services such as OpenChange. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server can also be joined to an existing Microsoft Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers can be joined to a Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, showing true peer-to-peer interoperability of the Microsoft and Samba implementations of the Active Directory protocols. Acknowledging the value of the interoperability of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, Steve van Maanen, the co-founder of Starsphere LLC, an IT services company in Tokyo, said: Thanks to Samba4, I have two fully replicating Active Directory Domain controllers that boot in under 10 seconds ! It is nice to have alternatives, and Samba4 is a great one. Upgrade scripts are also provided for organizations using the previous Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controller functionality in Samba 3.x, to allow them to migrate smoothly to Samba 4.0. Suitable for low-power and embedded applications, yet scaling to large clusters, Samba 4.0 is efficient and flexible. Its Python programming interface and administration toolkit help in enterprise deployments. Created Using Microsoft Documentation = The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers that made our implementation interoperable. Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments, and Microsoft is committed to support for interoperability across platforms, said Thomas Pfenning, director of development, Windows Server. We are pleased that the documentation and interoperability labs that Microsoft has provided have been key in the development of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory functionality. Introducing SMB2.1 File Serving Support === Samba 4.0 includes the first Free
RE: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. First off, I'll state I am not a fan boy, I like MS and FOSS products equally, I run Linux both at home and work on my desktop. That being said, and with you assuming I might have a preference to Linux and Unix, I wouldn't consider such a thing. The first support need your client will face without you being on hand will cost more than the one time hit of an SBS or similar rollout. None of that abomination that is called Samba is supported by any of your client OS's vendor and lets face it, Linux admins are more difficult to find than a generic point-and-clicker that can still troubleshoot simple things. I have such a distaste for Samba from setting up printing *with server supplied drivers* back in the 3x days. Has 4 improved on that God awful abomination of a process? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
I have never done this, but I know Synology DSM has a Directory Server application. A little Googling turned up the following for Windows clients (assuming that's what you've got). http://forum.synology.com/wiki/index.php/Join_Windows_Client_Computer_to_Directory_Service On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Pete Howard pchow...@yahoo.com wrote: Id like to use it at home on an existing low wattage appliance like a synology nas for basic centralized logons etc -- *From:* Matthew W. Ross mr...@ephrataschools.org *To:* NT System Admin Issues ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com *Sent:* Tuesday, December 11, 2012 3:26 PM *Subject:* Re: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Kurt Buff [mailto:kurt.b...@gmail.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:36:17 -0800 Subject: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I like this, from the very end: Members of the Samba Team work for many of the largest companies in the software Industry and even helped Microsoft produce the protocol documentation that fully specifies the SMB/CIFS protocol. We always knew that MSFT could use help documenting things, didn't we? Kurt -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Allison j...@samba.org Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:32 AM Subject: Samba 4.0 released - The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server is now available ! To: sa...@samba.org, samba-techni...@samba.org, samba-annou...@samba.org Cc: j...@samba.org Samba Team Releases Samba 4.0 = December 11th 2012. The Samba Team is proud to announce the release of Samba 4.0, a major new release of the award-winning Free Software file, print and authentication server suite for Microsoft Windows clients. The First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server == As the culmination of ten years' work, the Samba Team has created the first compatible Free Software implementation of Microsoft’s Active Directory protocols. Familiar to all network administrators, the Active Directory protocols are the heart of modern directory service implementations. Samba 4.0 comprises an LDAP directory server, Heimdal Kerberos authentication server, a secure Dynamic DNS server, and implementations of all necessary remote procedure calls for Active Directory. Samba 4.0 provides everything needed to serve as an Active Directory Compatible Domain Controller for all versions of Microsoft Windows clients currently supported by Microsoft, including the recently released Windows 8. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server provides support for features such as Group Policy, Roaming Profiles, Windows Administration tools and integrates with Microsoft Exchange and Free Software compatible services such as OpenChange. The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server can also be joined to an existing Microsoft Active Directory domain, and Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers can be joined to a Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, showing true peer-to-peer interoperability of the Microsoft and Samba implementations of the Active Directory protocols. Acknowledging the value of the interoperability of the Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server, Steve van Maanen, the co-founder of Starsphere LLC, an IT services company in Tokyo, said: Thanks to Samba4, I have two fully replicating Active Directory Domain controllers that boot in under 10 seconds ! It is nice to have alternatives, and Samba4 is a great one. Upgrade scripts are also provided for organizations using the previous Microsoft Windows NT Domain Controller functionality in Samba 3.x, to allow them to migrate smoothly to Samba 4.0. Suitable for low-power and embedded applications, yet scaling to large clusters, Samba 4.0 is efficient and flexible. Its Python programming interface and administration toolkit help in enterprise deployments. Created Using Microsoft Documentation = The Samba 4.0 Active Directory Compatible Server was created with help from the official protocol documentation published by Microsoft Corporation and the Samba Team would like acknowledge the documentation help and interoperability testing by Microsoft engineers that made our implementation interoperable. Active Directory is a mainstay of enterprise IT environments
RE: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0
I have such a distaste for Samba from setting up printing *with server supplied drivers* back in the 3x days. Has 4 improved on that God awful abomination of a process? Since I am unsure of the problems you were having, I don't know. I believe it is still the same: A samba printer share is setup to the CUPS printer and the drivers are uploaded using the windows client driver interface. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District - Original Message - From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:02:48 -0800 Subject: RE: SemiOT #2: More on SAMBA 4.0 I am curious on what the list thinks about an open-source alternative to an Active Directory server means to them... I'm sure many here will shrug it off, but for smaller installs where money is tight, would you consider Samba 4.0 AD servers? I know I am. First off, I'll state I am not a fan boy, I like MS and FOSS products equally, I run Linux both at home and work on my desktop. That being said, and with you assuming I might have a preference to Linux and Unix, I wouldn't consider such a thing. The first support need your client will face without you being on hand will cost more than the one time hit of an SBS or similar rollout. None of that abomination that is called Samba is supported by any of your client OS's vendor and lets face it, Linux admins are more difficult to find than a generic point-and-clicker that can still troubleshoot simple things. I have such a distaste for Samba from setting up printing *with server supplied drivers* back in the 3x days. Has 4 improved on that God awful abomination of a process? jlc ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/ ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
