Missing Samba domain policies

[Zoltan_Polyak (Zoltán Polyák)]

My biggest promblem with NS is the missing Samba domain policies. I have to spend a lot of time to make useable my Zentyal servers after any upgrades. Now I’m looking for an alternative server, but the file sharing not enought for me, I need domain policies. May the Univention the right answer.

I have to say NS is big supprise for me, every parts of it works perfecrly. Nice job! Maybe the NS 8.0 with full Samba features will be the perfect server for my clients and me.

[Nas (Artem Fedai)]

@Zoltan_Polyak
It is a long ride from OpenLDAP to Samba4 LDAP

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

@Zoltan_Polyak

My biggest promblem with NS is the missing Samba domain policies. I have to spend a lot of time to make useable my Zentyal servers after any upgrades. Now I’m looking for an alternative server, but the file sharing not enought for me, I need domain policies. May the Univention the right answer.

Ehi Zoltan welcome on NethServer Community,

We have already discussed this issue many times:
Why not Samba4/AD on NethServer?

DC compatible with Active Directory/GPO (Windows Server replacement) - #2 by AbsyntH

And we have decided to put it on our roadmap
Roadmap for Q1 2016

and recently @davidep’s got a surprise for us

NethServer Samba Domain Controller

I’ve just uploaded the first brick of the house to nethserver-testing. Some notes about how to install it on NethServer 7: http://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=samba_dc I’ve succeeded on connecting it with RSAT tools from a Win10 workstation. Where do we go from here? There’s a lot of work to do! Some sparse thoughts: Any service relying on system accounts must be reconfigured. Whenever possible, any service must use getent system calls to gather account informations and on PAM for user a…