samba - Jun 2014 - Recommended howto/guide for installing samba4 on ubuntu 12.04?

Most of what I've found involves installing from source, which I'm not
opposed to for a pilot install but for production I would rather use the distro
packages or sernet.

Or is this nuts/shortighted/ignorant? 

At any rate, I'm looking for a good guide for getting it set up as an AD
controller, and then migrating my existing samba3+openLDAP+autofs setup to the
new platform. Having too many issues trying to get win7/8 clients to play nice
with samba3.

Samba by example is what I used for my existing environment, great, phenomenal
guide, but there does not seem to be anything analogous for Samba4.

Thanks very very much, 

-Jeff 

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Jefferson K Davis 
Technology and Information Systems Manager 
Standard School District 
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Hello Jefferson,

Am 06.06.2014 19:06, schrieb Jefferson Davis:
> Most of what I've found involves installing from
> source, which I'm not opposed to for a pilot
> install but for production I would rather use the
> distro packages or sernet.
> 
> Or is this nuts/shortighted/ignorant? 
This should not much differ from the source installation. Just install
the packages instead of compiling the sources. Only the pathes may
differ. Just follow the HowTo:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO



Davor wrote a HowTo about a SOHO Server based on Ubuntu:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/WIP/Beginner_HowTo_-_SOHO_business_server

I haven't proofreaded and moved it to it's final place yet. But the you
could directly validate if it works and give feedback. ;-)




> At any rate, I'm looking for a good guide for getting it
> set up as an AD controller, and then migrating my existing
> samba3+openLDAP+autofs setup to the new platform.
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_Classic_Upgrade_%28NT4-style_domain_to_AD%29

We currently have nothing about autofs in the Wiki. But it would be
great if you provide some feedback or a tutorial, we can put into the Wiki.



> Having too many issues trying to get win7/8 clients
> to play nice with samba3.
Do you mean issues with Samba version 3 or Samba as a NT4-style domain?
If you only have issues with the old version, then simply upgrade your
machines to 4.1. Samba 4 does not require to migrate to AD.



> Samba by example is what I used for my existing environment,
> great, phenomenal guide, but there does not seem to
> be anything analogous for Samba4.
The best source currently is the Wiki:
http://wiki.samba.org
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/User_Documentation


Regards,
Marc