[Samba] NT4-Style Auth & Roaming Profiles Only?

Rowland penny
Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:26:15 -0000

On 26/07/16 19:08, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 12:37:51 -0500
> Dale Schroeder <dale at BriannasSaladDressing.com> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>> Jim,
>>
>> This may be your problem:  Samba 4.3.9
>>
>> Upgrading my NT4 domain from 4.2.x to 4.3.x and beyond broke it, and
>> no combination of configuration parameters could put it back together
>> again.
>>
>> I wish you better luck.
> Yikes!
>
> Thanks for mentioning that, Dale.  You may have just saved me a *lot*
> of wasted time.
>
> Current stable is 4.4.5.  I hate to get this server out of the
> repository cycle, but... How far "forward" did you go?
>
> Maybe I'll get the last 4.2.x stable release, and 4.4.5, see if I can
> get working what I want on 4.2.x, then see if I can jump to 4.4.5.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim

I cannot let this go by without commenting, when the badlock patches
were released, they also introduced several regressions. All of these
regressions (hopefully) have now been dealt with, so as long as you are
running 4.2.12, 4.3.9 or 4.4.3 at least, you should be okay.

Rowland