On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:45:00AM +0100, Helmut Hullen wrote: > Hallo, Simon (and Andrew), > > Du meintest am 08.02.11: > > >> in the samba mailinglist there was a remark that samba 4 is designed > >> only for the BIND nameserver; look escpecially at > >> > >> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2011-February/160848.html > >> > >> I know that most programmers work in their "free" time (me too). But > >> I don't like working with the ISC DNS, and I'd like working with > >> "dnsmasq" under samba 4 too. > > > My understanding of the situation is that full integration with AD > > requires support for dynamic DNS and the ability to update DNS zones > > with a fair variety of esoteric record types. To provide that sort of > > facility in dnsmasq would require re-writing and generalising a lot > > of code. > > [...] > > But what about people who want to use Samba without ADS, perhaps far > away from a Windows environment? It's more simple to configure, it > doesn't need specially trained operators. > > What about "Samba 4 light for SOHO"?
That's called Samba3 ;-) Whatever the details of Samba4 will finally look like, there will always be a way to just run a very simple file server with local users. The required components for that will be part of what will be shipped as Samba version 4. With best regards, Volker Lendecke -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
