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=Samba 4 Packages=
=Samba 4 Packages=
Upstream Centos 6 & 7 do not provide support for the full version of Samba 4. Packages available in the upstream repos are a crippled version of Samba 4, with many of the features associates with Active Directory disabled. The reason for this is detailed [https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2014/07/09/samba-ad-dc-in-fedora-and-rhel/ here]. A solution to provide Samba 4 active directory does not look to be forthcoming by viewing Samba status in the Fedora project.
Upstream Centos 6 does not provide Samba 4 packages with full Active Directory support but they are provided in current Centos 7. The reason Samba + AD packages are not available on Centos 6 is is detailed [https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2014/07/09/samba-ad-dc-in-fedora-and-rhel/ here]. A solution to provide Samba 4 active directory does not look to be forthcoming by viewing Samba status in the Fedora project.
To further development of support for Samba 4 on the Koozali SME Server, Samba 4 packages from Sernet were selected. These packages will not immediately install cleaning on SME 9 due to the customization of Centos associated with SME 9, so the Sernet packages where re-built for SME 9. Details of this rebuild along with a link to the rebuilt packages are located in [[bugzilla:8075]]
To further development of support for Samba 4 on the Koozali SME Server, Samba 4 packages from Sernet were selected. These packages will not immediately install cleaning on SME 9 due to the customization of Centos associated with SME 9, so the Sernet packages where re-built for SME 9. Details of this rebuild along with a link to the rebuilt packages are located in [[bugzilla:8075]]. After rebuilding, these packages do install cleanly but the services will not start using the init.d scripts provided with the packaged due to changes made during the re-build of the packages for SME 9.
It should be noted that as of Samba 4.3, Sernet stopped providing packages for free. Samba 4.3+ sernet packages are commercial only. Therefore, we will only be able to provide support on SME 9+ through Samba 4.2 unless someone comes up with a solution to port Samba 4 + AD to Centos 6. The Sernet Samba packages up through Samba 4.2 work fine for providing Active Directory support on SME 9+. Given SME 10 is in Alpha, the lack of upstream support for Samba + AD on SME 9 likely won't be a big issue.
=General Development Notes=
=General Development Notes=
