> Exchange and Active Directory are easily my favorite MSFT products. I've always wished they would port them to Linux […]

How is Samba 4's AD 'emulation' these days?

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EvanAnderson 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You know, I still haven't tried it. That's been on my to-do list for awhile now. I really like Samba (and used it as my homelab CIFS server for years) but I never explored the AD Domain Controller functionality.

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solraph 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I use Samba AD as the basis for SSO on my home network that has every major OS, and once it's running it's fine. There's a couple of gotchas (don't use SSSD, use winbind for PAM on Linux machines for example, and make sure your reverse DNS actually works), but honestly the biggest problem I've found was that a lot of the information out there is either Samba3 related, or assumes you are not using the AD tools

The advent of for AI coding has meant that I can now start building a bunch of those Quality of Life tools[0] to help set up and maintain the Samba domain. I've a few that are good for daily usage, and a couple in the works for the initial setup which aren't yet ready for public consumption.

[0] https://edward-murrell.github.io/packages/

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jra_samba 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's pretty good now, although, like all open source projects we're being hit with a tsunami of AI reported bugs right now.

	▲	EvanAnderson 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I definitely need to give it a shot. I'd love to get rid of Windows Server at home and use it as PoC for doing the same at Customer sites. I wish I could live w/o Active Directory but, even at home, my threshold for Windows machines I'll tolerate administering w/o Group Policy is "any more than zero". BTW, assuming you're who your HN username makes me think you are: Thanks for all your work on Samba. I've used the hell out of it at home and with Customers for at least two decades.