[Discuss] Samba4

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Tom Metro wrote:

> Warren Luebkeman wrote:
>> ...we released the latest version of...which is a free/open source
>> Linux domain controller based on Samba4.
>> If [you are] an IT shop or consultant, I think it could be quite useful
>> for you.
>
...
>
> Would you choose to deploy Samba on a newly setup network?
> Have your experiences with Samba been different?
>

We have had a great experience with Samba, but perhaps have not stretched 
its capabilities. It is inconvenient that the password hashes are 
different, but we live with that. What is the alternative? I'd like to 
convert all the clients to Linux, but short of that how does one mount 
Unix storage on Windows PCs? Is the MS Gateway for NFS better? Do you have 
experience with it? There is some information about it here:

   http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463203.aspx
   http://www.softpanorama.org/Unixification/SFU/sfu_nfs_implementation.shtml

but I have never heard of anyone using it. I don't see that it makes 
permission or username mapping any easier.

Daniel Feenberg
NBER