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Most of what I've found involves installing from source, which I'm not opposed to for a pilot install but for production I would rather use the distro packages or sernet. Or is this nuts/shortighted/ignorant? At any rate, I'm looking for a good guide for getting it set up as an AD controller, and then migrating my existing samba3+openLDAP+autofs setup to the new platform. Having

I have to say I probably shouldn't have read that version 3 samba book, but I did, so I'm thoroughly confused about what I should be doing to get this server configured properly. I have installed the Sernet rpms on this server. For now, I'm going to run the AD on the same server as the file shares. Using the wiki as a guide, I've followed the provisioning but the first tests

Hi I have and old system with samba 3.0.3 and I will migrate to a new server with debian jessie and samba 4. Im looking but Im not sure to create the structure samba + ldap + cups a good howto. My idea is to configure to use windows 7 how a clients. Any suggestions? The only seems to be good http://www.unixmen.com/setup-samba-domain-controller-with-openldap-backend-in-ubuntu-13-04/ but is for

When reading the wiki page about setting up new shares there is some information missing. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_and_configure_file_shares_with_Windows_ACLs The information I am missing most here is which posix.1 ACLs to set after creating the shares directory. There is only # mkdir -p /srv/samba/Demo/ but on my system that will create a directory that is owned by root:root

I have a Samba server here with 4 users and 4 XP systems. Kind of small, but it does the job. It is running as a PDC with roaming profiles. I should note that I left professionally supporting Windows networking around the time XP came out, so I have maintained an NTDomain through a number of incarnations (NT, Win2000, Samba2/3) and use of someone elses packaging. This time I want to use