Samba 4.10 RC1 Released: Adds Offline Domain Backups, Now Defaults To Python 3

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Samba 4.10 RC1 Released: Adds Offline Domain Backups, Now Defaults To Python 3

Samba 4.10 release candidate 1 was announced today as the open-source SMB implementation with support for Windows Server and Active Directory domains...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Samba-4.10-RC1-Released

[patrakov]

It's a shame that routers still default to Samba 3.6.

[Wilfred]

It's a shame that routers still default to Samba 3.6.

Openwrt does have newer packages

[patrakov]

Openwrt does have newer packages

Yes, but only in snapshot builds.

[starshipeleven]

Yes, but only in snapshot builds.

Unless something strange happens, it should be in next stable release, 19.something

[FireBurn]

I think this is the last big ticket thing on my system that requires python2 - the rest I think are only there because they're dependencies of Samba

[Vistaus]

I think this is the last big ticket thing on my system that requires python2 - the rest I think are only there because they're dependencies of Samba

Yeah, but it probably shouldn't contain Python at all, right? 'Cause the general consensus here at Phoronix is that Python sucks.

[andy22]

Yes, but only in snapshot builds.

Yeah i did not feel like officially backport it to 18.06.1, but the 4.9 package can be build against the 18.x SDK via my package builder (https://github.com/Andy2244/openwrt-package-builder).

I'm also not fully happy with the current luci design, but reworking it fully takes too much time atm.

PS: Currently i try to switch from external MIT-Kerberos to internal Heimdal.

[starshipeleven]

Yeah, but it probably shouldn't contain Python at all, right? 'Cause the general consensus here at Phoronix is that Python sucks.

Yeah, that's one of the reasons Samba is a pig with CPU load (relevant only for embedded devices admittedly).

[starshipeleven]

Yeah i did not feel like officially backport it to 18.06.1, but the 4.9 package can be build against the 18.x SDK via my package builder (https://github.com/Andy2244/openwrt-package-builder).

I'm also not fully happy with the current luci design, but reworking it fully takes too much time atm.

PS: Currently i try to switch from external MIT-Kerberos to internal Heimdal.

I would really like some form of guided setup script/wizard for Samba in OpenWrt.