[Cialug] Active Directory comes to Linux with Samba 4

[David Bierce]

Yes.

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.

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.

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.

Dave

On Jan 19, 2009, at 12:39 PM, David Champion wrote:

> Jeffrey Ollie wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM, David Champion
>> <dchampion at visionary.com> wrote:
>>
>>> As "Seen on Slashdot" - Active Directory comes to Linux with Samba  
>>> 4:
>>> http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/273515/active_directory_comes_linux_samba_4
>>>
>>
>> I was hoping that the linux.conf.au people would be video taping
>> Andrew Bartlett's presentation yesterday, but I haven't seen anything
>> show up yet:
>>
>> http://linux.conf.au/wiki/index.php?n=Sysadmin.ProvidingActiveDirectoryServicesFromLinuxUsingSamba4
>>
>>
>
> 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.
>
> -dc
>
>
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