My toolchain for building a complete Samba 4.1.4 on Scientific Linux 6 is available at https://github.com/nkadel/samba4repo. It's set up to set up a local yum repository for the necessary dependencies, and uses the EPEL published tool "mock" to build the toolchain in a clean local environment without accidental and incompatible system integrations.
Hi Nico, Thank you for the offer. Got me to thinking. Whenever I come across a Windows Active Directory (AD) server, I think under my breath "Why would you do that to yourself?". What a slow, cumbersome, clunky mess. Within the first ten minutes of discussing a Windows server with a client, I inevitably get asked how to speed it up. I have to tell then that that is just the animal they are dealing with. If I can set up a Windows server with the least amount of services running on it, I do. I love it when they don't want AD. (Most of my customers seldom have more than five workstations.) Okay, I do realize that Linux's stability and practicality is far superior to Redmond's stuff, which is why I prefer Linux. I see Linux as pretty much customer driven, as opposed to driven by the greatest, most effective marketing department in the history of free enterprise. Question: what do you see as an advantage of Samba's AD over just using Samba as an old fashioned Domain Controller? I take it old-out-of-date (SL) isn't supporting Samba 4 yet. Many thanks, -T -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
