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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. Goooo Samba ! by bushboy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Must admit, I don't follow any kind of samba dev, I just use the default samba install in whatever disty I'm using (use it on a tiny 12 people network), as it always works 'out the box'

    Goooooo Samba ! *spoken like al pacino watching flamingos on tv*

    Wonderful software is few and far between - samba falls into that category.

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  2. Choices by john82 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Andrew Tridgell (original Samba developer) thinks the fork is a good opportunity to reinvigorate the project and try other things.

  3. Re:Samba lead considers the fork a Good Thing(TM) by Tony-A · · Score: 2, Redundant

    "As the original author of Samba I am delighted that this split has occurred. Many of the design decisions in Samba are showing their age, but as Samba is so widely used it can be difficult to try radical new approaches while keeping the code as stable as users have come to expect. With a new project developers have a lot more freedom to try innovative solutions to problems without any concern about stability. While we don't yet know how the TNG project will work out, it will certainly teach us something about how their proposed approaches work when they are given the chance to be fully tested."

    "I look forward to seeing more development in TNG now that the developers are not constrained by the more conservative elements of the Samba Team (such as myself!) and I will be delighted to see the project flourish. There has been only one viable SMB server solution for the free software community for far too long, and a world with only one choice is a boring place indeed."

    Divide and conquor.

  4. Re:What about Samba-DS9? by iceT · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Samba-DS9??!!?? Get real. As any good corporate citizen knows, we all want Samba-Enterprise .

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