Copying samba-technical. On 1 November 2010 02:54, Christopher Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Friday, October 29, 2010 01:53 AM, Dale Schroeder wrote: >> >> Tommie, >> >> To emulate an Active Directory DC, you will have to use Samba 4. >> Note that Samba 4 is still in alpha, but some have reported using it >> successfully in production environments. >> >> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4 > > Does Samba 4 have to be a sole AD master or can it participate in a > multi-master role with an existing AD environment?
Samba 4 can work as one of the DCs in an existing AD environment and replicate changes to and from the other DCs. > I itching to be able to finally not use any Microsoft based software on the > servers. The Windows 2000 AD just serves logon scripts, group policies and > printing. It is safe to assume that all these are available with the latest > alpha? I think the best practice at the moment is to use e.g. a Samba 3 member server for file and print. I am using Samba only for authentication, though, so haven't tried it one way or the other. -- Michael Wood <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
