samba - Mar 2023 - DCs & subnets

> On 10. Mar 2023, at 17.20, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> Can I ask, why are you still using a version of Samba that went EOL 8 years
ago ?
> 
> I am trying to understand why people do not want to update something that
usually has big changes between series.
> 
> Rowland
In this case I?m not the original admin who installed it and once I came around
it was already quite a few years old. For a while it looked like the company was
moving to cloud authentication so it was left as it is while waiting for the
decision and time passed even more. Plans were changed again and now I want to
update the environment and start keeping it more current.

I suspect it?s often things like changes in personnel and company bureaucracy
that get in the way and updating critical components like this that need to be
done carefully gets put in the back burner.

-Perttu

On 10/03/2023 15:51, Perttu Aaltonen via samba wrote:
> 
>> On 10. Mar 2023, at 17.20, Rowland Penny via samba <samba at
lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> Can I ask, why are you still using a version of Samba that went EOL 8
years ago ?
>>
>> I am trying to understand why people do not want to update something
that usually has big changes between series.
>>
>> Rowland
> 
> In this case I?m not the original admin who installed it and once I came
around it was already quite a few years old. For a while it looked like the
company was moving to cloud authentication so it was left as it is while waiting
for the decision and time passed even more. Plans were changed again and now I
want to update the environment and start keeping it more current.
> 
> I suspect it?s often things like changes in personnel and company
bureaucracy that get in the way and updating critical components like this that
need to be done carefully gets put in the back burner.
> 
> -Perttu
Ah, managers, those people who, mostly, haven't got a clue and just get 
in the way LOL

Rowland