<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes.<div><br></div><div>For the past couple of months I've been using the samba4 git repo nightlies and it is very far from finished. It can act as a DC. It serves up files, has an AD schema and integrates with bind. It doesn't have many features working beyond that.</div><div><br></div><div>There are lots of missing things like printing and a user backend that isn't the imbedded lbdb. It does have basic support for the holy grail of an AD environment, GPOs.</div><div><br></div><div>Since they haven't decided how their going to configure the thing, user documentation is kinda scarce. It has the potential to be awesome, but like someone else said, it's like the Duke Nukem of the FOSS world.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jan 19, 2009, at 12:39 PM, David Champion wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Jeffrey Ollie wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM, David Champion<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><<a href="mailto:dchampion@visionary.com">dchampion@visionary.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">As "Seen on Slashdot" - Active Directory comes to Linux with Samba 4:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/273515/active_directory_comes_linux_samba_4">http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/273515/active_directory_comes_linux_samba_4</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"> <br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I was hoping that the linux.conf.au people would be video taping<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Andrew Bartlett's presentation yesterday, but I haven't seen anything<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">show up yet:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://linux.conf.au/wiki/index.php?n=Sysadmin.ProvidingActiveDirectoryServicesFromLinuxUsingSamba4">http://linux.conf.au/wiki/index.php?n=Sysadmin.ProvidingActiveDirectoryServicesFromLinuxUsingSamba4</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <br></blockquote><br>The sad part, if you read the computerworld article, is that it sounds like it may be quite some time still before Samba 4 is released.<br><br>-dc<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</a><br><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>