Re: [Samba] 3 vs 4

2009-02-04 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 12:07 +0900, Nicholas Katzakis wrote: Hello guys, I am looking to deploy samba as a Primary Domain Controller on a small network of windows vista PC's. I was wondering if it's worth installing samba 4 alpha versions or if I should go with 3 for now and wait until 4 is

[Samba] 3 vs 4

2009-01-19 Thread Nicholas Katzakis
Hello guys, I am looking to deploy samba as a Primary Domain Controller on a small network of windows vista PC's. I was wondering if it's worth installing samba 4 alpha versions or if I should go with 3 for now and wait until 4 is final. Will there be a dramatic change in the configuration? i.e.

Re: [Samba] 3 vs 4

2009-01-19 Thread John Drescher
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Nicholas Katzakis nkatza...@gmail.com wrote: Hello guys, I am looking to deploy samba as a Primary Domain Controller on a small network of windows vista PC's. I was wondering if it's worth installing samba 4 alpha versions or if I should go with 3 for now and

[Samba] Samba4 - MS specs delivered? - WAS: Re: Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-26 Thread Charles Marcus
Curious... This question probably belongs more on samba-technical, but I'm sure there are others that would be interested in the answer... Has Microsoft been forthcoming with the release of the protocol specs as agreed to and outlined in the big announcement? If so, shouldn't this speed up

Re: [Samba] Samba4 - MS specs delivered? - WAS: Re: Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-26 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
This question probably belongs more on samba-technical, but I'm sure there are others that would be interested in the answer... Has Microsoft been forthcoming with the release of the protocol specs as agreed to and outlined in the big announcement? Check out the News section of the

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-26 Thread Richard Hurt
Andrew, I'm thinking that Samba4 offers what I need and will be pretty safe (data wise) as long as I don't stray too far into uncharted/ undeveloped areas. Primarily we need to be able to do 3 things: manage users, groups, computers; share data on the network; be able to log into any

[Samba] Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-25 Thread Richard Hurt
Hey all, We are currently using an Apple XServe G5 as a PDC for 150 Windows XP Pro machines. Everything worked well (sorta) under OS X 10.4 (Tiger) but when we upgraded to 10.5 (Leopard) it just fell apart. I reinstalled the OS several times and tried everything I could to get it to

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-25 Thread Volker Lendecke
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 03:54:04PM -0500, Richard Hurt wrote: So, I am going to set up my own stand-along Samba box (Debian 4) to replace the old XServe. My question is should I use Samba 3 or 4? I Being biased a bit, I'd say that probably Samba4 will be the more bumpy ride. Volker

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-25 Thread Ryan Bair
Samba 4 could eat your children and is still pretty incomplete (printing isn't there at all last I checked). I'd highly recommend sticking with 3. For Samba 4, the AD toolkit can be used but again probably not ready for primetime. In Samba 3 I believe the NT Domain user manager can be used, but

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:54 -0500, Richard Hurt wrote: Hey all, We are currently using an Apple XServe G5 as a PDC for 150 Windows XP Pro machines. Everything worked well (sorta) under OS X 10.4 (Tiger) but when we upgraded to 10.5 (Leopard) it just fell apart. I reinstalled the OS

Re: [Samba] Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:52 -0500, Ryan Bair wrote: Samba 4 could eat your children I've only ever claimed it could eat your cat... and is still pretty incomplete (printing isn't there at all last I checked). I'd highly recommend sticking with 3. While incomplete, the areas that are there

[Samba] Re: Samba 3 vs 4, User Maintenance

2008-02-25 Thread Brian May
Andrew == Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andrew On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:52 -0500, Ryan Bair wrote: Samba 4 could eat your children Andrew I've only ever claimed it could eat your cat... You were obviously wrong... -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe