[Kolab-devel] why not ship Kolab with Samba by default?

[Martin Konold]

On Sunday 31 May 2009 15:11:41 Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

Hi Tomasz,

> >> Having Samba support in Kolab by default could greatly increase Kolab's
> >> userbase, I think.
> >
> > I only wanted to tell that other people feel the same like you about
> > samba support.  They opened an issue about and provided code, that can be
> > included in kolab, but sofar that is about it.
>
> Are there any technical arguments against it (besides additional
> maintenance burden)?
>
> The changes are not intrusive, and Samba domain controller could be an
> option, not enabled by default (like Horde is now).

I am afraid that people start to think that Kolab is the perfect Samba 
solution and therefore many Samba related support request(*) start popping up.

Yours,
-- martin
(*) As soon as you start using samba for non trivial purposes including PDC, 
BDC, printer driver, printing and ACLs things become hairy for the plain 
reason that Samba tries to offer a mapping between unix/posix and Windows with 
regards to these properties. 
It is simply IMPOSSIBLE to get such a mapping right in all corner cases. E.g. 
there is no sufficently good counterpart to SIDs. Windows ACLs are very 
different from POSIX ACLs,....

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