On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:57:57PM -0000, jshanks wrote: > [...] Samba has pretty much been treated as the redhead stepchild.
I'm not familiar with this idiom. I'm not a readhead nor a stepchild, so I'm in no position to make assumptions about their care takers' attitude towards them, but I gather from the context that this is not a position one should strive for? > Even in their so called enterprise version, the recommended Samba > configurations generally give about as much functionality as directory > sharing in Windows 95. Manually editing scripts, installing > unsupported packages and compiling software seems to be the rule if > you want a fully functional Samba domain controller. Especially if > you want to use LDAP, DHCP and Dynamic DNS with Samba. I agree that the default configuration we provide does not do Samba justice. We would be more than happy to accept suggestions for a better default configuration or cool scripts to include in our Samba packages. How would you prefer to work on this? If you've got it all ready, just file a wishlist bug about it. If you want to take a more active part in it, stop by #ubuntu-server on IRC and we can discuss it there. > Anyway, enough rambling . . . you're right. 6.06 by itself doesn't > cut it as a Windows domain controller/server unless you're willing to > manually install the latest Samba packages because there are really no > backports of the latest patches. It might be worth noting though, > that there are distributions out there that are getting better. Which ones and how are they getting better? We're eager to learn and improve. > Maybe we need a Samba/OpenLDAP/DHCP/Bind DNS server project that is as > easy to use a LAMP. After all there are only so many UNIX servers out > there to replace and small and medium businesses out there would be > more than willing to give a Linux server a try if it supported their > clients out of the box. Ubuntu Small Business Server. Catchy! In Gutsy+1 there will be something like this based on http://www.ebox-platform.com/ . -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- Samba Backport Urgently Needed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137656 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs