On 5/20/23 15:33, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:> You never mentioned Freebsd before, I take it all back, I do not know if > it will work, Samba as a DC on Freebsd is just too flaky (from what I > have observed) to trust.I've got 10 FreeBSD DCs running without any problem. Perhaps you are talking about some advanced feature I don't use? Auth works. Scripts do. I rarely used policies, but IIRC they worked too. 2 DCs in the same network work. What problems are you referring to? bye & Thanks av. P.S. As much as I'd like to avoid it, a Linux VM would be possible in case of troubles.
On 20/05/2023 16:09, Andrea Venturoli via samba wrote:> On 5/20/23 15:33, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: > >> You never mentioned Freebsd before, I take it all back, I do not know >> if it will work, Samba as a DC on Freebsd is just too flaky (from what >> I have observed) to trust. > > I've got 10 FreeBSD DCs running without any problem.I haven't got any, but when I last tried it, I had nothing but problems.> Perhaps you are talking about some advanced feature I don't use? > > Auth works. > Scripts do. > I rarely used policies, but IIRC they worked too. > 2 DCs in the same network work. > > What problems are you referring to? > > ?bye & Thanks > ????av. > > P.S. > As much as I'd like to avoid it, a Linux VM would be possible in case of > troubles. >It may work, it probably will work, but I keep reading about problems with Samba and FreeBSD. I know it will work with Linux, but it seems that FreeBSD cannot keep up, Samba is now at 4.18.2 but, as far as I can see, FreeBSD isn't anywhere near that and will, so I understand, require patches to Samba to get near 4.18 As I said, whilst it may work, I have enough doubts to not really recommend using Samba on FreeBSD in production. However, it is your domain and as such, you get to make the decisions. It should work, I know it would work if it was Linux, but on FreeBSD ????? Rowland
On Sat, 2023-05-20 at 17:09 +0200, Andrea Venturoli via samba wrote:> On 5/20/23 15:33, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: > > > You never mentioned Freebsd before, I take it all back, I do not know if > > it will work, Samba as a DC on Freebsd is just too flaky (from what I > > have observed) to trust. > > I've got 10 FreeBSD DCs running without any problem. > Perhaps you are talking about some advanced feature I don't use? > > Auth works. > Scripts do. > I rarely used policies, but IIRC they worked too. > 2 DCs in the same network work. > > What problems are you referring to?If the basics work, I wouldn't expect any major issues, particularly if you keep the fileserver and DC roles distinct, as recommended. It it good to hear that things are working well for you on FreeBSD. The big challenge in this space is packaging, if you have the skills to help with the FreeBSD port then helping out there would make a massive difference.? We have seen in the Debian space quite how much of a difference a passionate and active maintainer can make, keeping Samba up to date in the packaging area. Both have a few, but not significant, platform- specific patches in the packages, but nothing major as far as I could see. The big thing I would say on FreeBSD is that sadly we can't on our Linux docker infrastructure test, or even cross-compile to, FreeBSD. It would be incredibly awesome if some work could be done in this area. Even small steps like adding Alpine Linux to our bootstrap system to get a non glibc build would be a start, then adding a cross-compile to FreeBSD after that. Testing is harder. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett (he/him) https://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Team Member (since 2001) https://samba.org Samba Developer, Catalyst IT https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
On 5/20/23 17:09, Andrea Venturoli wrote:> On 5/20/23 15:33, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: > >> You never mentioned Freebsd before, I take it all back, I do not know >> if it will work, Samba as a DC on Freebsd is just too flaky (from what >> I have observed) to trust. > > I've got 10 FreeBSD DCs running without any problem. > Perhaps you are talking about some advanced feature I don't use? > > Auth works. > Scripts do. > I rarely used policies, but IIRC they worked too. > 2 DCs in the same network work. > > What problems are you referring to?Hello. Just to report back: a couple of moths ago I moved this AD domain from a Windows 2012 DC to a Samba 4.17/FreeBSD DC without any trouble. Demoting the old DC was the biggest issue, as, being an Essential edition, it would not cope. Everything is working fine now. bye & Thanks av.