Changes

=Samba 4 Packages=

=Samba 4 Packages=

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.

Upstream Centos 6 and 7 do not provide Samba 4 packages with full Active Directory support.  This is because Samba 4 Kerberos is based upon Heimdal Kerberos whereas the upstream vendor uses MIT Kerberos.  Heimdal Kerberos and MIT Kerberos are not compatible with one another and so the upstream vendor has decided to disable Kerberos support in Samba until such time as Samba supports MIT Kerberos.  Details can be found here  https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/MIT_Build

and here https://blog.cryptomilk.org/2014/07/09/samba-ad-dc-in-fedora-and-rhel/

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.

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.

The SME Server DevTeam is currently working on creating modified upstream packages for SME 10 alpha.  More to come soon.

=Installation=

=Installation=