A brief introduction

[davidep (Davide Principi)]

It should be safe. I’ll tell you tomorrow.

@indra

First I tried the latest/greatest NS7 rc but I could not access the samba shares as a user or group only as a guest.

I want to clarify that this is a regression bug that has been fixed. The fixed package is in testing and is going to be released soon. Do you want to check it out?

And then shared folders stopped working...?

A nethserver-samba testing package is available. It reverts the effects of the last 2.0.2 release, and restores the default wbclient library from the Samba project. This means that by default, NTLM auth is still supported, but ACLs can’t be changed from domain workstations /cc @saitobenkei To enable the support to ACLs from domain workstation (but disable NTLM authentication): config setprop smb Libwbclient sssd signal-event nethserver-samba-update As said, this operation will be soon availa…

@robb

If you can not join the domain with all your pc’s because they are not Professional versions, NethServer 6.8 is a safe bet.

As said above, NTLM authentication will be back soon. I guess Win Home supports it. We must say NethServer 7 shared folders are accessible from Windows Home ed.

I wouldn’t go with ns6 for new installations once ns7 Final is released!