hiya folks, I've been trying to figure out which branch of samba is best for us to use. I read the FAQ, and it seems a little out of date. or at best, lacking in info. It says that, "The current stable, production Samba server is the Samba 3.2 branch." If that is the case.. then why are there **THREE** other branches? why is there also a 3.3, *and* a 3.4, *and* a 4.x branch? To give an idea of my criteria: I'm looking for a version that will be part of a large-scale server for the next few years, as a member of an ms-windows active directory
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 12:40:48PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote:> hiya folks, > I've been trying to figure out which branch of samba is best for us to use. > I read the FAQ, and it seems a little out of date. or at best, lacking in info. > It says that, "The current stable, production Samba server is the Samba > 3.2 branch."Yes, that's out fof date. Should state 3.4 branch.> If that is the case.. then why are there **THREE** other branches? > > why is there also a 3.3, *and* a 3.4, *and* a 4.x branch?We've moved to a 6 monthly release cycle (like Ubuntu). So like Ubuntu the latest version (3.4.x) is the current stable production version, but we still release patches for people running 3.3.x as Linux distros release patches for current versions in maintanence. 4.x is different, we have a ship plan for this that I'm planning to talk about in the next Samba Team blog.> To give an idea of my criteria: I'm looking for a version that will be > part of a large-scale server for the next few years, as a member of an > ms-windows active directoryI'd recommend 3.4.x right now. Jeremy.
> From: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org[mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org]> On Behalf Of Philip Brown > Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:41 PM > To: samba at lists.samba.org > Subject: [Samba] which version best to use right now? > > hiya folks, > I've been trying to figure out which branch of samba is best for us touse.> I read the FAQ, and it seems a little out of date. or at best, lackingin info.> It says that, "The current stable, production Samba server is theSamba 3.2> branch." > > If that is the case.. then why are there **THREE** other branches? > > why is there also a 3.3, *and* a 3.4, *and* a 4.x branch? > > To give an idea of my criteria: I'm looking for a version that will bepart> of a large-scale server for the next few years, as a member of anms-windows> active directory >What OS are you using? If you're using something like RHEL or SUSE I would go with the vendor-packaged kit and forget any of the bleeding edge stuff. Red Hat is still on 3.0.33, but they seem to keep it more up to date that a generic 3.0.33 release, and I would go with that - it performs just fine and should have all the functionality you need. (unless you end up in a strange AD environment that you need more current AD support, but I severely doubt it) -=Andrew