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This year's Storage Developer Conference (September 22-23, 2020) will be a virtual event. Volker Ledecke and Stefan Metzmacher have already pre-recorderd talks for the SMB agenda track.

Volker Lendecke will address "Samba locking architecture". Lendecke is SerNet co-founder, developer and long-time Samba Team member. 

Stefan Metzmacher's topic will be "Samba Multi-Channel/io_uring Status Update". He works as developer at SerNet and is a member of the Samba-Team as well. 

Both talks will be available in the "Day 1 Breakout Sessions" starting at 11:20am PDT (20:20 Uhr CEST). Registration for SDC 2020 is still possible.

Christof Schmitt talks about "Lessons learned from using Samba in IBM Spectrum Scale" in this sambaXP 2020 talk. He is a member of the international Samba team since 2013 and works as Software Engineer Spectrum Scale for IBM in Tucson, Arizona (LinkedIn).

Abstract

IBM Spectrum Scale is a software defined storage offering of a clustered file system bundled together with other services. Samba is included as part of the product to provide a clustered SMB file server and integration into Active Directory. This talk discusses from a development point of view the integration of Samba into a storage product and what the development team has learned over the years. Topics include the requirement for automated testing on multiple levels and the collaboration with the upstream Samba project. Examples illustrate problems encountered over time and how they have been solved. Further topics are challenges that have been solved and gaps that have been seen with the usage of Samba.

About the "sambaXP 2020 Retrospective"

In this series we will present recordings of the sambaXP 2020 in the coming weeks. These were selected by SerNet's "Team Samba". The 19th edition of the international conference on the open source software Samba took place from 26 - 28 May 2020 for the first time exclusively in digital form. Due to the changed event format and the use of an online conference platform, organizer SerNet is able to offer all talks as videos for viewing (link).

In this sambaXP 2020 talk Ingo Meents presents use cases and requirements of Enterprise customers for Samba Files Server in IBM Spectrum Scale. Meents is Protocol Tribe Lead at IBM Germany Research & Development GmbH. 

Abstract

IBM has deployed Samba as part of file storage solutions for many years now. The current product of IBM is called Spectrum Scale and it delivers clustered Samba to a world-wide base of Enterprise customers on top of IBM's clustered file system known as gpfs.

The first part of the talk describes selected requirements, use cases and enhancements this mission has been driving over the last years. This includes topics like file contention, access control lists, and Mac support.

The second part of the talk addresses the new challenging requirements with respect to identity mapping like the server side group resolution for NFS clients and the increasing demand to add sssd to the clustered Samba server nodes.

About the "sambaXP 2020 Retrospective"

In this series we will present recordings of the sambaXP 2020 in the coming weeks. These were selected by SerNet's "Team Samba". The 19th edition of the international conference on the open source software Samba took place from 26 - 28 May 2020 for the first time exclusively in digital form. Due to the changed event format and the use of an online conference platform, organizer SerNet is able to offer all talks as videos for viewing (link).

How to migrate 515 servers from AD to Samba? This talk from the sambaXP 2020 by Caglar Ulkuderner gives an answer.  Ulkuderner is Managing Partner of Profelis IT based in Turkey (LinkedIn). 

Abstract

The Turkish Government decided to move to open source technology around 2013. After this decision Profelis worked on a desktop server migration project and developed an OpenSuse based distribution called Gibux.

37.000+ desktop were migrated in 3 years. After this migration, the Ministry approved AD servers migration to Samba4. Today 515 servers countrywide use Samba as Authentication. This is the story of one of the biggest open source migration projects in Turkey.  Slides (PDF)

About the "sambaXP 2020 Retrospective"

In this series we will present recordings of the sambaXP 2020 in the coming weeks. These were selected by SerNet's "Team Samba". The 19th edition of the international conference on the open source software Samba took place from 26 - 28 May 2020 for the first time exclusively in digital form. Due to the changed event format and the use of an online conference platform, organizer SerNet is able to offer all talks as videos for viewing (link).

David Mulder presents "Samba Active Directory tools for Windows Admins" in his sambaXP 2020 talk. Mulder works as Software Engineer at SUSE (GitHub). 

Abstract

This is a follow up to last years talk about managing AD via an ncurses gui. This talk will cover additional improvements to the ADUC and ADSI Edit modules, as well as covering a new DNS Manager. ADUC and ADSI Edit now communicate with AD via samba python bindings, and the DNS Manager interacts with samba-tool calls. The tools have also been wrapped in a redistributable AppImage, which can run on multiple distros. Automated testing has also been written. Slides (PDF)

About the "sambaXP 2020 Retrospective"

In this series we will present recordings of the sambaXP 2020 in the coming weeks. These were selected by SerNet's "Team Samba". The 19th edition of the international conference on the open source software Samba took place from 26 - 28 May 2020 for the first time exclusively in digital form. Due to the changed event format and the use of an online conference platform, organizer SerNet is able to offer all talks as videos for viewing (link).