samba - Feb 2023 - Domain join with realm

On 2/9/23 09:25, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> Why are we even talking about providing support for something that Samba 
> does not provide ?
This list is open for discussing any Samba related topic.

There's a lot "we don not provide" but we still can try to help
folks.
This list is not a commercial support line where we push best practices 
down peoples throat. Samba often works with other components outside of 
what we might consider the most simple, obvious and sane setup, so 
instead of pushing people away, our advice should be a bit more 
constructive.
> If I remember correctly, there used to be a Samba wikipage about using 
> sssd, but it was removed because Samba could not support sssd because 
> Samba does not write it.
Again, as a community we always have and will try to help folks with 
everything Samba related, including stuff "we do not write". It's
of
course each individual's choice on which stuff he is able and willing to 
help. In doubt, I personally just don't reply to the list, but instead 
just stay in read only mode and see if there's anything I can learn.
> In my opinion, the best place for information about realmd and sssd is 
> in the red-hat controlled wikis.
To give you some context: often in enterprise environments the use of 
certain tools is mandatory and we've had regular discussions with 
customers about stuff like sssd vs winbindd in nsswitch. Often the use 
of sssd is mandatory and not being able to make Samba work with that, 
may result in Samba being replaced altogether with a different software 
stack.

So documenting what works and what might not work, of course possibly 
linking to external documentation instead of replicating what's 
available elsewhere, help our community and project in the long run.

Thanks!
-slow

-- 
Ralph Boehme, Samba Team                 https://samba.org/
SerNet Samba Team Lead      https://sernet.de/en/team-samba

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On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 09:55:02AM +0100, Ralph Boehme via samba
wrote:
>
>Again, as a community we always have and will try to help folks with 
>everything Samba related, including stuff "we do not write".
It's of
>course each individual's choice on which stuff he is able and willing 
>to help. In doubt, I personally just don't reply to the list, but 
>instead just stay in read only mode and see if there's anything I can 
>learn.
Indeed - well said Ralph. I personally see this lists as kind
of a grab-bag of "All Things SMB" :-).

There isn't really a forum for SMB 1/2/3 protocol users and
implementors (although samba-technical is probably a better
list for implementors) and this list is the closest thing
we have.

We're all in this crazy protocol world together, and we
all do better when we help each other, even if Samba
isn't directly involved. We all know sooner or later
it will be as we are the universal glue between Windows
and non-Windows systems :-) :-).