Samba 4 Moves Closer to Active Directory Server Compatibility

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Sep 7, 2007 7:06 AM EDT
Linux Watch; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 		Mail this story
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For years, if you wanted an inexpensive, but Windows-compatible file and print server, you turned to Samba running on Linux. Now, with the first alpha release of Samba 4, this open-source project is moving closer to becoming a complete Windows 2003/Longhorn replacement. However, the Samba Group warns would-be users that, "Samba 4 is currently not yet in a state where it is usable in production environments. Note the WARNINGS in WHATSNEW.txt in the source and the STATUS file which aims to document what should and should not work."

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