Samba

Current Status

Current Version: 4.0.0 Download Release Notes

The official press release of samba 4 can be found on the Samba website.

In short, you can join a Windows (all recent releases should be supported) machine to a Samba Active Directory, and it will behave much as it does in AD, including Kerberos domain logins where applicable. Samba 4 is now at a point where it can begin replacing existing production deployments, and users are encouraged to try out Samba 4 in a test environment before implementing it in a work environment!

Samba as a Active Directory Domain Controller

Here you find everything to setup a Samba Active Directory Domain Controller and all that is related to this topic.

• Samba Active Directory HowTo: Contains everything for setting up a basic Samba Active Directory Controller

• Migrating a samba3 PDC to a samba Active Directory: If you are running a samba3 NT4-style environment and want to move to an Active Directory, this is the documentation that contains all neccessary information

• Permissions, SELinux Labeling and Policy

• Setting up a file share

• Samba print server

• Joining Windows Clients to the samba Active Directory

• Samba remote administration using the typically Windows tools

• Samba user management/administration

• Roaming profiles with samba

• Working with organization units

• Using group policies with a samba AD controller

• Joining a Windows Domain Controller as an additional DC in a domain

• Beyond Samba: Connecting other services/daemons to your samba Active Directory (e. g. authentication, etc.)

• Samba Active Directory schema extension

• Creating a Single Sign On VPN with Samba AD

Samba as a domain member server

• Joining the Active Directory as a domain member server

General documentation on samba

• Release planing for Samba 4.0

• Samba 4 demonstration videos

• Samba 4 FAQ

• CTDB Project

• Open bug reports on Samba 4.0

Developing samba

• GitWeb

• v4-0-test (replaced by master)

• v4-0-stable (current branch for 4.x.x releases)

• master (current Samba development) branches

For more info on available branches, as well how to obtain the sources via a Git client, see the samba.org devel page.

• Writing Torture Tests

• Using waf to build Samba

• Building Debian packages of Samba 4

Historical documentation on development of samba4

• Samba4 DRS ToDo List

• Samba 4 Status

• Franky: A Hybrid Samba Active Directory Controller (outdated!)

• An Explanation of the s3fs Architecture for Using smbd in the AD Server

• Development Resources

• Building Samba 4.0

• Test Status

• Gtk+ Frontends

• Active Directory Plans

• Domain Member plans

• LDAP Directory Server Backend History Notes

• Samba 4 AD Plugfest 2010 TODO List

• Development releases of Samba4 (technology previews, alphas, betas, release candidates)