Samba 4.0.0 Officially Released

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Samba 4.0.0 Officially Released

At long last Samba 4.0.0 has seen the light of day. Samba 4.0 was officially released today as the major rewrite of this widely used SMB/CIFS implementation...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTI0ODk

[uid313]

This is awesome for Linux on the desktop in the enterprise and business.

[bulletxt]

Wow.. this is such a good news!

[deanjo]

Yup.... another sure sign that the world is coming to an end in 10 days. :P

[Hohlraum]

- There is no NetBIOS browsing support (network neighbourhood)
available for the AD domain controller. (Support in nmbd and smbd
for classic domains and member/standalone servers is unchanged).

.. fail.

[garegin]

- There is no NetBIOS browsing support (network neighbourhood)
available for the AD domain controller. (Support in nmbd and smbd
for classic domains and member/standalone servers is unchanged).

.. fail.

ms is phasing out netbios and recommending people to use globalnames zone.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc731744.aspx

[Ericg]

ms is phasing out netbios and recommending people to use globalnames zone.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l.../cc731744.aspx

Just read the article...whats the diff between using GlobalNames Zone vs just routing all DNS through a DNS Server that has a host file entry for all clients? Because it says you have to add a CNAME entry for east client soooo... same amount of work?? (DNS server could be linux, bsd or win based since win has C:\windows\system\drivers\etc\hosts)

[steveambeo]

Linux on the desktop in the enterprise and business.

[tomato]

Just read the article...whats the diff between using GlobalNames Zone vs just routing all DNS through a DNS Server that has a host file entry for all clients? Because it says you have to add a CNAME entry for east client soooo... same amount of work?? (DNS server could be linux, bsd or win based since win has C:\windows\system\drivers\etc\hosts)

I haven't used Samba4, but shouldn't be this done automatically when you add a computer to the domain? That's what Windows AD controllers do.