[$] Two FOSDEM talks on Samba4

Much as some of us would love never to have to deal with Windows,it exists. It wants to authenticate its users and shareresources like files and printers over the network. Although manyenterprises use Microsoft tools to do this, there is a free alternative,in the form of Samba. While Samba 3 has been happily providingauthentication along with file and print sharing to Windows clients formany years, the Microsoft world has been slowly moving toward Active Directory (AD).Meanwhile, Samba 4, which adds a free reimplementation of AD on Linux, hasbeen increasingly ready for deployment. Three short talks at FOSDEM 2018provided three different views of Samba 4, also known as Samba-AD,and left behind a pretty clear picture that Samba 4 is trulyready for use.

Subscribers can read on for a report from guest author Tom Yates on the first two of those talks; stay tuned for another on the third soon.