Hello Guenther, thx for making this more clear Best Regards Robert
Guenther Deschner schrieb:
Hi Robert,
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 03:56:48AM +0100, rruegner wrote:
Hi Guenther, as Suse released just their own packs can you describe whats the difference between their packs and sernets?
Sure:
Initially, SerNet started to deliver samba3-rpms for the SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 at a time when SuSE was unable to do so. Quickly our customers demanded support-services for our packages, so that we now have long-term maintained and fully supported Samba3-RPMs for a variety of platforms.
Basically the main difference (and this what we call SerNet-style) is that
we ship binaries that are statically linked against the most recent and
stable Heimdal Kerberos Library.
This gains us independence from vendor-supplied Kerberos-libraries and enables us to provide a working Active Directory-Integration. To give an example: we do not suffer from a nasty bug that is present in heimdal-0.6.1rc3 and that causes pretty much all samba binaries that deal with memory-credential-caches to segfault.
Additionally we ship some heimdal-enhancements that ease integration (e.g. transparent fallback from udp to tcp when acquiring kerberos tickets if required by a Windows KDC without the need to flag each kdc with a tcp-transport in /etc/krb5.conf).
Apart from that, both package-flavours are rather similiar (they are derived from the same source).
Hopefully this explained a bit the effort of our own packaging.
Guenther
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