Erst mal nur als Pre-Alpha Technology Preview aber draussen. Active Directory mit Open-Source Software ist nicht mehr weit weg…

Zum Download stehen ein tarball und die patchfiles auf dem Samba FTP bereit, und die Lektüre der Release Notes ist anzuraten…

Samba4 TP is currently a pre-alpha technology. It may eat your cat, but is far more likely to choose to munch on your password database. We recommend against upgrading any production servers from Samba 3 to Samba 4 at this stage. If you are upgrading an experimental server, you should backup all configuration and data.

We expect that format changes will require that the user database be rebuilt from scratch a number of times before we make a final release, losing password data each time.

(via: heise und OSNews.com)