> > There are two opensource kerberos servers, one is MIT, which is the > default on red-hat distros, the other is Heimdal, which is the default > for Samba. After a lot of work, Fedora is now using MIT with Samba, but > there is still a lot more to do, so it is recommended to only use the > Fedora packages for testing and Samba with MIT is marked as > experimental. > > > > > What are my other choices? Compile from source? > > You can compile from source, but this would entail either creating your > own RPM's or setting the configure options to place Samba into where > Fedora expects it to be (which could be overwritten by a later distro > update) or just running './configure' which would place Samba entirely > into /usr/local/samba. You could also try to find a repo that supplies > Fedora RPM's that use Heimdal. > > Another option is to use a distro that has always used Heimdal, Debian > is such a distro, but their Samba packages are bit old, this isn't a > big problem, you can find later Samba packages here:I was just doing some searches for other distributions. Centos was said to be based on Redhat. Do you know if it would be a good one to use for Samba DC? Thank you.> > http://apt.van-belle.nl/ > > RowlandThis email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient(s), please contact the sender by reply email and destroy the original message and any copies of the message as well as any attachments to the original message.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2019 10:02:42 -0600 durwin at mgtsciences.com wrote:> > > > There are two opensource kerberos servers, one is MIT, which is the > > default on red-hat distros, the other is Heimdal, which is the > > default for Samba. After a lot of work, Fedora is now using MIT > > with Samba, but there is still a lot more to do, so it is > > recommended to only use the Fedora packages for testing and Samba > > with MIT is marked as experimental. > > > > > > > > What are my other choices? Compile from source? > > > > You can compile from source, but this would entail either creating > > your own RPM's or setting the configure options to place Samba into > > where Fedora expects it to be (which could be overwritten by a > > later distro update) or just running './configure' which would > > place Samba entirely into /usr/local/samba. You could also try to > > find a repo that supplies Fedora RPM's that use Heimdal. > > > > Another option is to use a distro that has always used Heimdal, > > Debian is such a distro, but their Samba packages are bit old, this > > isn't a big problem, you can find later Samba packages here: > > I was just doing some searches for other distributions. Centos was > said to be based on Redhat. Do you know if it would be a good one to > use for Samba DC? >Centos is RHEL recompiled and as such, it will suffer from the same problems as Fedora (some people call Fedora, RHEL testing) from the Samba point of view. Basically, if you are going to change distro, you need to find one that doesn't use MIT as its default kerberos server. This will probably mean one that doesn't use RPM's. Rowland
> > > > > > There are two opensource kerberos servers, one is MIT, which is the > > > default on red-hat distros, the other is Heimdal, which is the > > > default for Samba. After a lot of work, Fedora is now using MIT > > > with Samba, but there is still a lot more to do, so it is > > > recommended to only use the Fedora packages for testing and Samba > > > with MIT is marked as experimental. > > > > > > > > > > > What are my other choices? Compile from source? > > > > > > You can compile from source, but this would entail either creating > > > your own RPM's or setting the configure options to place Samba into > > > where Fedora expects it to be (which could be overwritten by a > > > later distro update) or just running './configure' which would > > > place Samba entirely into /usr/local/samba. You could also try to > > > find a repo that supplies Fedora RPM's that use Heimdal. > > > > > > Another option is to use a distro that has always used Heimdal, > > > Debian is such a distro, but their Samba packages are bit old, this > > > isn't a big problem, you can find later Samba packages here: > > > > I was just doing some searches for other distributions. Centos was > > said to be based on Redhat. Do you know if it would be a good one to > > use for Samba DC? > > > > Centos is RHEL recompiled and as such, it will suffer from the same > problems as Fedora (some people call Fedora, RHEL testing) from the > Samba point of view. Basically, if you are going to change distro, you > need to find one that doesn't use MIT as its default kerberos server. > This will probably mean one that doesn't use RPM's.Ok, so Debian? What about Ubuntu? Thank you.> > Rowland >This email message and any attachments are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain proprietary and/or confidential information which may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient(s), please contact the sender by reply email and destroy the original message and any copies of the message as well as any attachments to the original message.