Upgrading from Samba 2 to Samba 3

Konrad Heuer kheuer2 at gwdg.de
Tue May 17 23:09:28 PDT 2005


On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

> It's great if you like your server applications to be twice as
> complicated
> as before.  Seriously, though, you can turn off all the fru-fru and
> set it up pretty much equivalent to a samba 2 server.  The fru-fru is
> needed if you have a lot of XP stuff and you want to interoperate with a
> Microsoft AD.
>
> Ted
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Roger Merritt
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 7:40 PM
> > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> > Subject: Upgrading from Samba 2 to Samba 3
> >
> >
> > I've just become aware that samba.org is no longer supporting Samba 2
> > (which has served me well for so long) and I should upgrade to
> > Samba 3,
> > which is now the stable version. I don't find any warnings about it in
> > /usr/ports/UPDATING. Does anyone have any gotchas I should be aware of?
> >

I recently heard a lecture about the evolution of Samba 4. Seems to me you
can't understand it unless your are Microsoft certified systems engineer
with lots of special active directory knowledge ... ;-)

Best regards

Konrad Heuer
GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2 at gwdg.de


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