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UNIX Name: smbd Website: http://www.samba.org Latest version: 4.0.0 TP 2 - 2006-3-22
Samba 4 is the ambitious next version of the Samba suite that is being developed in parallel to the stable 3.0 series. The main emphasis in this branch is support for the Active Directory logon protocols used by Windows 2000 and above.
Samba 4 is currently not yet in a state where it is usable in production environments. Note the WARNINGS below, and the STATUS file, which aims to document what should and should not work.
This builds static modules, a script exists to build a dynamic module version but fails to build without significant intervention. The file sizes can be reduced by removing uneeded modules, but Samba 4 has a lot of modules and little documentation :(
# ./extract_samba4.sh # ./build_samba4.sh
FreeBSD 6.1, GCC 3.4.4, recommended compile options.
component size stripped size description
samba 16,765,064 14,941,146 vanilla
11,052,858 9,465,466 i386
11,052,858 9,465,466 i486
11,065,379 9,477,754 pentium
11,065,379 9,477,754 pentium-mmx
14,509,423 12,909,434 pentiumpro
11,044,397 9,457,274 pentium2
14,510,137 12,910,138 celeron-mendocino
14,526,722 12,926,650 pentium3
14,526,530 12,926,458 pentium-m
14,191,134 12,590,586 pentium4
14,191,134 12,590,586 pentium4-prescott
14,191,134 12,590,586 pentium-nocona
11,065,379 9,477,754 via-c3
14,343,579 12,742,170 transmeta
12,778,543 11,178,522 k6
12,778,543 11,178,522 k6-2
12,778,543 11,178,522 k6-3
14,415,126 12,815,066 athlon
14,415,126 12,815,066 athlon-tbird
14,835,214 13,235,194 athlon-4
14,835,214 13,235,194 athlon-xp
14,835,214 13,235,194 athlon-mp
14,837,723 13,237,658 athlon64
14,837,723 13,237,658 opteron
14,837,723 13,237,658 turion64
samba 3 + OpenLDAP : A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX and an Open source LDAP server implementation (5,272,008 + 890,372 bytes)
samba 3 + ypserv : A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX and a NIS database server (5,272,008 + 95,257 bytes)
Its one process to configure and manage compared to Samba and OpenLDAP. Samba 3 for some configurations requires local user accounts too. This is the future version too, so unless things do not work reliably it will head in this direction anyway.
The Technology Preview (TP) releases are used and not the source repository in order to have some stability in being able to reproduce compilation of the Samba suite.
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