[ale] Advice requested on samba solutions.

[Jim Kinney]

OK. Really sounds like samba 4.1 is what you need. Hit up Mike Trouche for
details as he has it running in his lab and is very pleased with it.
On Jul 21, 2014 9:22 AM, "David Millians" <millia at panix.com> wrote:

>
> On 7/20/2014 11:04 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> W2k8 will work with old nt4 network style but it is a rebuild to do it.
>> Not
>> recommended!
>>
>
> Okay. I figured it was going to be difficult.
>
>  I'm not sure if you're trying to replace the 2k8 servers with samba or run
>> the software on a samba box. Samba 4.1 is purported to be rock solid.
>> Might
>> be worth a tarball install. Haven't looked at version shipping with
>> centos7
>> but sles should have an upgrade soon.
>>
>
> I am waiting impatiently for SLES 12. I would prefer not to tarball it,
> but I'll do it if I have to.
>
> As for the server, it's a VM appliance to run the win pak server, so I'm
> not looking to replace it. I just want the individual desktops to be able
> to talk to it across the net.
> So, I need networking glue between all the points. Whether that's samba
> 4.x boxes being AD PDC and BDC or whether it's some lashup of WINS running
> from Samba 3.6.x, I don't know. Or it might be something I haven't thought
> of- those are just the ways that I thought of. As said, the quick test with
> 3.6.x and WINS didn't work.
>
>  Don't plan on running the program on a samba box.
>>
>
> Nope. :)
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
>
>
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