Missing Samba domain policies

[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…