Where To Get Sernet-Samba4 Questions Answered?

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Not wanting to build Samba4 myself I spent some time searching for rpm packages suitable for use on our CentOS-6.5 hosts. I discovered http://enterprisesamba.com/ which provides rpms (sernet-samba-4.1.4-7) for CentOS-6. However, I cannot find an online support community for this package and requests for help made to the samba.org list have met with absolute silence. Since my requests had to do with uncaught exceptions with stack traces and PANICs in samba-tools I can only infer from the silence that that list does not handle support enquires from anyone that does not build their own Samba4 from source.

I have been to sernet.de which builds the rpms and the site is in German, a language I have not used in over twenty years and which I never read very well. It refers to EnterpriseSamba.com but that site in turn provides no reference to an online support community of users.

So, I need help and I need some guidance as to where to go get it. Does anyone here use the same packages for their Samba setups? Does anyone know of an online support group for users of this particular package?

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  • You misunderstand. I registered at EnterpriseSamba in the belief (prehaps mistaken) that this was the Samba project core team’s public ‘brand’. I have the sernet-samba rpm installed already. I also have the sernet-Samba-ad service running and promoted to a DC on my existing AD Domain already.

    the experience to give me confidence in committing to Samba in place of our existing W2K AD DC. Eroding what confidence I do have is that I have encountered a number of issues where the samba-tool utility simply breaks and gives what appears to be an abbreviated a stack trace along with some pretty startling error messages, containing words like “PANIC” and “unhandled exception”.

    For that reason I have subscribed to the Samba mailing list. I get the message traffic from that list. And I have received my own messages to the list back as well as see them in the list archives as well, thus confirming that my messages were delivered.

    What I am unable to do is to get any response to any of the questions I have posted respecting the errors I have encountered. I get nothing. It is as if I had never written.

    So, I am seeking an alternative support venue, if such exists, where I might get some answers. If there is none then I will simply re-post my original messages to the samba list until I get some sort of response, even if it is only an expression of irritation.

  • It’s crippled though – you can’t run it in full AD mode (samab4-ad has a text file saying sorry this isn’t available) so you need the sernet packages if that’s your goal.

  • I know this might not be helpful but …

    When reading this page I get the impression that it’s mostly about sernet’s commercial Samba offering. Ok, the .rpms are freely downloadable but it looks like everything else is commercial support.

    -dirk