Hi, I read in the samba news, that everyone should update from Samba 3.6 to 4.x since Samba 3.6 will be discontinued by the release of 4.2. Is it possible just to remove/deinstall the Samba 3.6 package and then install the wheezy-backports of 4.1.11? Will all configuration and stuff be still there? Do I have to do further configurations to run the still NT4-Style domain? What is the common way to use samba in a heterogen environment? Acutally, we have an OpenLDAP,Kerberos,NFS4 environment for linux clients with samba 3.6 to integrate windows clients with an NT4-style domain. What is an good way to use Samba4 and the AD features? The linux clients needs fast read/write file access to the file server during scientific simulations. That's why we use NFS up to now. -- Viele Gr??e Andreas Hauffe Leiter der Arbeitsgruppe "Auslegungsmethoden f?r Luftfahrzeuge" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technische Universit?t Dresden Institut f?r Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik / Institute of Aerospace Engineering Lehrstuhl f?r Luftfahrzeugtechnik / Chair of Aircraft Engineering D-01062 Dresden Germany phone : +49 (351) 463 38496 fax : +49 (351) 463 37263 mail : andreas.hauffe at tu-dresden.de Website : http://tu-dresden.de/mw/ilr/lft ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
On 13/01/15 14:30, Andreas Hauffe wrote:> Hi, > > I read in the samba news, that everyone should update from Samba 3.6 to 4.x > since Samba 3.6 will be discontinued by the release of 4.2. > > Is it possible just to remove/deinstall the Samba 3.6 package and then install > the wheezy-backports of 4.1.11? Will all configuration and stuff be still > there? Do I have to do further configurations to run the still NT4-Style > domain? > > What is the common way to use samba in a heterogen environment? > > Acutally, we have an OpenLDAP,Kerberos,NFS4 environment for linux clients with > samba 3.6 to integrate windows clients with an NT4-style domain. What is an > good way to use Samba4 and the AD features? The linux clients needs fast > read/write file access to the file server during scientific simulations. > That's why we use NFS up to now. >If you are already using Debian wheezy, you should be able to add backports and just update, though you may have to make some mods in smb.conf to account for any slight changes since 3.6. You do not have to upgrade to AD unless you want to, but it might make sense to set up a test domain and see if a Samba4 AD domain is better for you. Rowland
On 2015-01-13 15:30, Andreas Hauffe wrote:> Hi, > > I read in the samba news, that everyone should update from Samba 3.6 to 4.x > since Samba 3.6 will be discontinued by the release of 4.2.Debian (and Canonical, and Redhat, ?) support is independent from upstream support. Samba 3.x in Wheezy/Ubuntu LTS/? will continue being supported by their distributors until they're EOL. So there's no immediate need to update everything.> Is it possible just to remove/deinstall the Samba 3.6 package and then install > the wheezy-backports of 4.1.11? Will all configuration and stuff be still > there? Do I have to do further configurations to run the still NT4-Style > domain?No idea, we migrated from NT4 to an AD straight away.> What is the common way to use samba in a heterogen environment? > > Acutally, we have an OpenLDAP,Kerberos,NFS4 environment for linux clients with > samba 3.6 to integrate windows clients with an NT4-style domain. What is an > good way to use Samba4 and the AD features? The linux clients needs fast > read/write file access to the file server during scientific simulations. > That's why we use NFS up to now.Samba 4 doesn't support external LDAP backends any more, at least when running as AD. As far as I know you'd need to set up Kerberos trust between them and use different realms. -- Mit freundlichen Gr??en, / Best Regards, Sven Schwedas Systemadministrator TAO Beratungs- und Management GmbH | Lendplatz 45 | A - 8020 Graz Mail/XMPP: sven.schwedas at tao.at | +43 (0)680 301 7167 http://software.tao.at -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 648 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/attachments/20150113/021247ca/attachment.pgp>