Topic: [ANNOUNCE] smeserver-adv-samba rpm

[gzartman]

I have been experimenting with this subject aswell. Never was able to do this without the use of Kerberos.
Greg knows for sure if he left out this issue on purpose or maybe simply forgot.

Kerberos is not needed for regular domain membership.   Winbindd provides local user authentication.

Greg

[turandot]

@Greg,

once more I would like to emphasize that your mod is addressing an urgent need.

I would like to pick up your original post. SME 7.4 is out now for a while, but AFAIK your forked Samba patches were built for 7.3, and nothing is available for 7.4 so far. Could you share some thoughts about the following topics.

• When will you be able to provide a fork for SME 7.4?
• What is the status of including your changes into SME core packages?
• Is your current mod smeserver-adv-samba-0.1.0-5.el4.sme.noarch.rpm capable to work with SME 7.4?
• What will happen if SME 7.3 with your fork plus the mod was updated to SME 7.4 by the normal update mechanism?

Many thanks,

turandot

[gzartman]

This has been addressed in the wiki:

http://wiki.contribs.org/Advanced_Samba

ServerRole functionality is now part of the core SME packages, but are "post-SME7.4" so they've not been released yet, but can be installed from the smeupdates-testing repo.  I personally run these packages on all of my production machines and have talked with others who are as well.

Yes, the current smeserver-adv-samba package works on SME 7.4 and the current SME 8 beta.

I'm confident that you can upgrade the forked packages with the ones in smeupdates-testing cleanly.  Make sure you do a signal-event post-upgrade;signal-event reboot after you update these packages.

If you have any trouble, be sure to let me know.


Greg