samba - Apr 2012 - SerNet has created an open source Samba4 appliance for early testing

Dear samba and samba-technical lists,

The Samba Team is working towards getting a Version 4.0 released.

In oder to ease testing of the Active Directory features of
Samba4, even for people who don't want to download and compile
the source code, SerNet (http://www.sernet.de/) has created a
software appliance based on current Samba master snapshots.

The major purpose of this is to make it very easy to experiment
with Samba4 for people who are thinking about using it in
production soon. Note that this is not intended to be used
in production.

The appliance is offered as an install cd iso image. It consists
of a basic Debian squeeze install with preeinstalled Samba 4 binaries
and a couple of system customizations. After booting, the user is
logged into a minimal graphical system and presented with an
interactive dialog to configure a new Samba4 Active Directory domain.

The iso image can be freely downloaded from

http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba4-appliance/

All additions and customizations are under the GPL.
The current version that has been released yesterday is based on
Samba 4.0 Alpha 19. There is a README with more details:

http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba4-appliance/README

New versions will be announced on SerNet's samba newsletter
(https://www.sernet.de/de/samba/newsletter/).

We hope that someone will find it useful. :-)

Cheers - Michael

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Michael Adam <ma at sernet.de>
SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 G?ttingen
phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9
AG G?ttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen
http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kontakt at sernet.de
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Hi,

On 13.04.2012 12:49, Michael Adam wrote:
> The Samba Team is working towards getting a Version 4.0 released.
>
> In oder to ease testing of the Active Directory features of
> Samba4, even for people who don't want to download and compile
> the source code, SerNet (http://www.sernet.de/) has created a
> software appliance based on current Samba master snapshots.
By pure coincidence (and because it was announced at cebit) I downloaded 
that appliance yesterday and took it for a first test drive.
First problem: I can't change /etc/resolv.conf, neither as user sernet 
nor as user root nor from a grml-cd. And as the dns resolving is wrong, 
I can't access the appliance from anything but the (virtual) local gui. 
And I can't install/update other packages.
Which leaves me rather clueless with the whole package...

Any advice?

Have fun,

Arnold
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On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 12:49 +0200, Michael Adam wrote:
> Dear samba and samba-technical lists,
> 
> The Samba Team is working towards getting a Version 4.0 released.
> 
> In oder to ease testing of the Active Directory features of
> Samba4, even for people who don't want to download and compile
> the source code, SerNet (http://www.sernet.de/) has created a
> software appliance based on current Samba master snapshots.
> 
> We hope that someone will find it useful. :-)
Thank you and the other folks at SerNet so much for doing this.  It is
great to see Samba4 demonstrated, and I wish you the very best with this
little demo.

Thanks!

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org