CentOS - Apr 2014 - Samba4 questions

I'm a little new to Samba when used as more than just a simple place to 
mount a single user to a single share, but we're now getting ready to 
replace our Netware servers with Samba, and I guess that means Active 
Directory DC.

As I read more and more about this beast, I keep finding pages that 
indicate the samba4 rpms supplied with the Centos/RH distribution are 
not the full version and that I should get them from either samba.org or 
certain other sources that provide complete versions. These pages are a 
little dated, but not that old.

Can anyone provide insight into what they've done in this situation and 
whether the samba rpms are now full versions? Most of what I have found 
on the web is dated around when samba4 just came out of beta through a 
little later.

There doesn't seem to be much documentation on this subject on the web 
or through Amazon, so half of my time is spent searching instead of 
reading. A good source for reading would be appreciated as well. I can 
find plenty examples, just not definitive manuals.

steve campbell

On 18 Apr 2014 16:49, "Steve Campbell" <campbell at
cnpapers.com> wrote:
> As I read more and more about this beast, I keep finding pages that
> indicate the samba4 rpms supplied with the Centos/RH distribution are
> not the full version and that I should get them from either samba.org or
> certain other sources that provide complete versions. These pages are a
> little dated, but not that old.
>
The samba4 packages redhat provides has AD DC functionality disabled due to
heimdal/MIT issues. They are also quite out of date.

To get more recent working packages look to SerNet Samba.

I have used the informations available at samba4:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page

wget ftp://ftp.samba.org/pub/samba/samba-4.1.6.tar.gz

and compiled samba4.

CentOS Version is 6.5

best regards
Helmut

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Am 18.04.2014 17:49, schrieb Steve Campbell:
> I'm a little new to Samba when used as more than just a simple place to
> mount a single user to a single share, but we're now getting ready to
> replace our Netware servers with Samba, and I guess that means Active
> Directory DC.
>
> As I read more and more about this beast, I keep finding pages that
> indicate the samba4 rpms supplied with the Centos/RH distribution are
> not the full version and that I should get them from either samba.org or
> certain other sources that provide complete versions. These pages are a
> little dated, but not that old.
>
> Can anyone provide insight into what they've done in this situation and
> whether the samba rpms are now full versions? Most of what I have found
> on the web is dated around when samba4 just came out of beta through a
> little later.
>
> There doesn't seem to be much documentation on this subject on the web
> or through Amazon, so half of my time is spent searching instead of
> reading. A good source for reading would be appreciated as well. I can
> find plenty examples, just not definitive manuals.
>
> steve campbell
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