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4.1.0 is now expected to be released at Friday, September 27. That leaves us with a ~2 week gap before openSUSE 13.1 RC1 for potential Samba 4.1.0 release slippage, which I'm okay with. ... The systemd unit files are still missing. ... There had been reports that sysvinit files lead to a not started nmbd even if the service was activated.

Didn't the last release of OpSuse have samba 3.x? There has been more than a few problems with people upgrading from 3.x to 4.x and last I heard, if you don't need Active Domain features -- that simple file serving was better handled by 3.x -- but that was a few months back. I haven't kept track, but: 1) is 4.x now recommended for all cases (i.e. 3.x no longer better for file serving?) 2) is there anything that needs to be done for a user to upgrade from 3.x->4.x? 2a) I.e. will our old /etc/samba/smb.conf files "just work" with 4.x? 3) Are there any changes in going to 4.x that anyone would need to worry about? I.e. - Anything dropped in 4.x? any changes in the various idmap config options? I'm using "nss" for my own, simple, site with the range being 0-999999999. From what I've seen on the samba list, I know I'm not the only person to have to deal with both, '\' (BackSlash) & spaces in usernames as well as dealing with random "case" issues (upper/lower, with 3.x not following the windows standard of preserving case) on my Suse box (which acts as a domain controller so I can propagate ownership & permissions between my Linux & Win machines. Just wondering about how upgrades are handled (if any handling is needed)... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

-----Original Message----- From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linda A. Walsh Cc: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] (transition from samba 3.x?) (was Re: Samba 4.1.0 into Factory?) Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 01:37:31 +0200 (CEST) On Thursday 2013-09-12 00:34, Linda A. Walsh wrote:

I haven't kept track, but: 1) is 4.x now recommended for all cases (i.e. 3.x no longer better for file serving?)

An explanation shall be found on https://lwn.net/Articles/469792/ . -----Original Message----- Jan, you wrote "shall be found". That sounds like there is an ongoing discussion there, or that the answer can be found. However. the original article is from 30-nov-2011, and the latest reply on it is dated from 4-jan-2012. Earlier this year, feb-2013, at FOSDEM, it was said that you can migrate seemlessly from MS A.D. towards samba4, and (for some sysadmins more important) seemlessly also back again. Only drawback for some they said, was that samba4 had closely integrated all subfunctions, and you could no longer use separate tools like openldap and kerberos. Only exception was (when configured properly) bind. And there were (at that time) no plans for enabling the use of those other subfunctionalities... Since fosdem quite some months has passed and things might have changed. hans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org