Franky
On May 8, 2008, a couple of samba developers came together in a sambaXP followup meeting in Göttingen at SerNet, and the idea was born to combine the best parts of Samba3 and Samba4 to form a complete Samba Active Directory server that is also a performant file server and a print server.
The Idea
The Samba4 and Samba3 daemons should run in parallel and the tasks should be distributed among the processes. The various deamons should communicate via unix domain sockets.
One essential part for the feasibility of the project is Volker Lendecke's recent work on Samba 3 on adding the ability to delegate named pipes (dcerpc services) to external programs over unix domain sockets.
The plumbing design
The main ...
Name of the game
The codename Franky was coined for the combined Samba release.
TODOs
Branches
- Named pipe forwarding in Samba 3: s3-merge34 @ git://git.samba.org/vl/samba.git
- Named pipe connection accepting in Samba 4: s4-merge34 @ git://git.samba.org/vl/samba.git
- S3+S4 Build integration: "franky" @ git://git.samba.org/jelmer/samba3.git