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Samba-TNG Team Releases 0.3

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the imitation-is-the-sincerest-form dept.

emissary47 writes "The Samba-TNG (the next generation) team, releases the first beta of Samba-TNG (a Samba fork since 2000) including some very interesting features for everyone willing to replace NT4 domain controllers. With excellent LDAP-backend support, integration of Microsoft tools such as usermanager for domains and servermanager and a powerful command-line tool called rpcclient it is _the_ alternative solution for Windows domain controlling at the moment. They even include scripts for NT4-server migration in order to make a change easier."

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  1. late ??? by johnjones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    late I dont think so

    even MS will admit that they cant get people to move from NT to XP or 2k

    this is right on time ! because people will start to find NT is no longer supported by MS and move what they move to might just not be Microsoft based because its too expensive hence samba TNG

    but what I want to know is this

    can samba-TNG be a real PDC and comunicate to a NT BDC all the information such as the userlist AND when it falls over and comes back up (system maintenance) take back the PDC status and any changes from the BDC ?

    acting as a PDC and syncing with a NT BDC is what SAMBA really lacks IMHO

    regards

    John Jones

  2. Re:Gui configuration tools? by Jellybob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From what I read in the summary, you can use the same tools you'd use to admin a native NT4 server, at least for the server list, and users.

  3. Still doesnt fix a Samba problem. by Lumpy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Older but still heavily used DOS based Medical and Accounting packages WILL NOT reliably use a samba machine for a SMB share. a NT server will do it fine, but samba, including the latest and greatest will not. it keeps losing data or losing the connection.

    Cince most doctor offices still use Dos based medical software, and Most companies still use their DOS based Accounting software (Quickbooks is a Joke compared to these real accounting packages) any migration of their servers to linux spells doom.

    I've waited for over 4 years for this issue to be dealt with and it seems that the samba team is not interested.

    I personally wouldn't use these old (but still cost thousands today) apps.... but you cant tell a customer that to save $400.00 on their server they need to spend another $5500.00 to change their software suite and spend 100-200 hours manually keying in the old data into the new system.

    companies are funny that way.

    --
    Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
  4. Re:What's new? by Jeremy+Allison+-+Sam · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Err - both Samba-TNG and Samba support this (byte-range
    locks). Out of the box. We have done for years. I wrote the
    code :-). That's why you can use Samba for these multi-user
    apps :-).

    Jeremy.