Stuart Henderson <st...@openbsd.org> writes:

> On 2015/07/15 12:45, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
>> Giovanni Bechis <giova...@paclan.it> writes:

[...]

>> > From my latest tests there is no network browsing with a Samba4 AD server 
>> > (at least till 4.1.18, I haven't tested 4.2.x) and a samba3 nmbd could be 
>> > used as a workaround.
>> 
>> I was not aware of this.  nmbd comes from source3/, so that would be
>> a regression.
>> 
>> I won't have a windows box handy to reproduce this until... august.  Do
>> others experience the same problem?
>
> Is that this
>
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/FAQ#Why_is_Network_Neighbourhood_empty_or_does_not_show_all_machines_in_an_Samba_AD_environment.3F
>
> (i.e. functionality not implemented in the AD DC yet)?

Hmm, ok.  IMHO such a limitation is not a showstopper for the switch to
samba4.

(BTW, note that the informations on the samba wiki sometimes get
outdated...)

> Can you just run samba4 as an NT4-type DC instead? I don't see a reason
> why that would be any worse than running samba3 as an NT4-type DC.

Indeed.  It would be nicer than keeping net/samba around, unhooked, both
for you and for ports.

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