[Fsf-friends] Samba 4.0 getting ready

[doxa at antispam.org]

Samba on its maturity path.
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"Q: For how long has development on Samba 4 been going on now?

Jeremy Allison: I think it started about a year ago, maybe longer. And it's big, it's biting off a lot of stuff. Right now the Kerberos Domain Controller and the LDAP server are less well developed than other areas, and that's where a lot of the work is going on with now...

The problem is, people tend to trust their LDAP server; the one they have. So there are some tensions in Samba 4. One of the things is, there are many many people who have - let's say - they've got a small office with 50 computers or whatever. They don't have an LDAP server, they don't want an LDAP server, they don't know what an LDAP server is, they just want something that will standardise all their accounts in a single file. So for that, a built-in Samba 4 LDAP server is great, is exactly what they want...."
Complete story at 
http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=217

CK Raju