For the Love of God - Will Someone Please Fix Samba?

[WarrenV]

I've just spent the day digging into nas4free's samba implementation, and it's fair to say that I'm "less than impressed".

The highlights of what is broken:
1: When AD is enabled, creation of the Kerberos configuration file seems to be hardcoded into the smbd executable.
2: When adding nas4free to active directory, it caches the administrator password in plaintext in config.xml.
3: The default variables in the smb.conf file are just plain broken, and the gui is too stupid to help deal with this.
4: The samba rc script tries to rejoin the domain every time the service is started, but the service never renews tickets.

Seriously: what the f_*? If this isn't going to be fixed in the next release, just do everyone a favor and take CIFS support out of the product.

[apollo567]

I've just spent the day digging into nas4free's samba implementation, and it's fair to say that I'm "less than impressed".

The highlights of what is broken:
1: When AD is enabled, creation of the Kerberos configuration file seems to be hardcoded into the smbd executable.
2: When adding nas4free to active directory, it caches the administrator password in plaintext in config.xml.
3: The default variables in the smb.conf file are just plain broken, and the gui is too stupid to help deal with this.
4: The samba rc script tries to rejoin the domain every time the service is started, but the service never renews tickets.

Seriously: what the f_*? If this isn't going to be fixed in the next release, just do everyone a favor and take CIFS support out of the product.

Well please reflect in your discussion N4F is a project of volunteers, so If you have coding / System design capabilities you are more than invited to participate. Aside of this as the software is quite a gain for the user 'as it is'. So keep this in mind but everyone knows there is always room to improve....