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...uired by the file server). samba-common-bin is a badly named package which has its own functionality which is partly related to smbclient, and it also has unrelated-to-client files which are used by server packages (samba and winbind). > .....? On the other > hand, there are a few commands (samba_downgrade_db, samba_upgradedns) which don't > fit neither in samba (due to python deps and not being relevant to standalone > server use case) nor in samba-ad-client package (due to being impractical without > the file server component). > > I don't see how it can be split better.? Maybe...

.... ==================== samba-ad-client - new package with basic ad client functionality. This receives the following files (from samba-common-bin or samba): samba-tool samba-gpupdate samba_dnsupdate, samba_spnupdate - can these be run w/o samba-the-file-server? samba_downgrade_db ? There's some confusion between the split between samba and (new) samba-ad-client. One one hand, samba the file server does not need AD functionality for the stand- alone usage, so it can be quite lean. So I'm moving AD-related binaries (which depend on python) to samba-ad-client. On a...

On 26/05/24 03:00, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote: > There's also /usr/sbin/samba_kcc in there, - should go either to samba-ad-client > or samba-ad-dc, I can't understand which one. samba-ad-dc. It is called by the server. >> BTW, do we really need samba_downgrade_db these days?? Changing format to the >> one used by samba 4.7, srsly?? I'd just remove this one :) Yeah, maybe. It's there in case you just upgraded from 4.7 and found something went wrong, but I don't know if that has ever happened in practice. Douglas