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On 13/12/12 20:14, Rob Beard wrote: > > I saw that the other day, I'm interested in having a play with it for > some of the AD specific features on Windows (and not having the > expense of a Windows Server). It's one of those things though that > I'll look at eventually, for now at home at least Samba 3 is doing the > job nicely. :-) > > Rob > > It's worth pointing out that none of the common distros (if any at all, I haven't checked all my hosts yet) have yet rolled the 4.0 proper package out via there repos - they are still distributing the RC or beta versions so it's worth holding off until the 'real' 4.0 hits your distribution channel. Unless you feel like compiling it yourself that is, which I don't recommend for the faint hearted. If you really want to do it properly, there are some decidedly non-trivial OS reconfigurations to be made as well, such as modifying your fstab to fully support options required by SMB and even kernel recompilations to tune/enable certain settings. These changes are a must for enterprise stuff, just like rolling an Oracle DB server or other big iron correctly, but if you just want to play at home you definitely don't need to worry about of these more hardcore settings. It's probably also worth pointing out that Samba3 is likely to be enough for almost anyone playing at home - it already has full domain capability including limited AD functionality with group policy support, etc, but can be compared in overall maturity with NT/Server 2000 tech: for example, still primarily only supports ye olde PDC/BDC distinction, only supports SMB1 without hacks and so on. Samba4 is a major leap forward in functionality and with a few more in-development features finalized will be an almost complete drop-in equivalent for 2008RC2/2012 servers which for cross-platform specialists will be a life saver. I can't even begin to guess just how much of my working life I've spent trying to convince various Unix, Linux and Windows systems to play nice together on the same networks. Lastly, Microsoft are surprisingly generous with their test-for-free downloads - you can usually get 90 day fully functional trials of nearly everything, including stuff like Sharepoint services, Exchange, etc to experiment with for free. If you've got a decent enough machine and are comfortable with virtualization tech you can pretty easily set up your own virtual testing lab for fun, education and even profit. Being a linux guru is all well and good but in the real world every skilled linux tech I've ever dealt with also understands windows boxes as well, and you're not going to get a very good job as a linux expert if you can't even make your linux systems integrate with the Microsoft tech that is so prevalent. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/business/products/downloads-and-free-trials.aspx Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq