[Samba] Which windows admin tools work with samba 4.1?

[DNK]

On Mar 12, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Marc Muehlfeld <samba at marc-muehlfeld.de> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Am 12.03.2014 14:44, schrieb DNK:
>> Thank you for the info. I’m familiar with the usage of
> > the tools themselves. I just have never used them
> > with Samba. I guess the main reason I was asking is
> > that I just setup a Samba 4.1 server on Centos 6.5
> > (Bind flat file) and not all the tools would work.
> > For example the DNS mgmt would not work, etc. The user
> > mgmt tools did, etc. So because it was not consistent,
> > I was just making sure that I was not barking up a tree
> > when certain tools might not have been supported.
> 
> Did you realy provisioned with BIND flat file (not BIND_DLZ)?
> 
> Bind flat file isn't reccommented and there were thoughts in the past, to remove it. That's why the Wiki HowTo only talks about BIND_DLZ and the internal DNS.
> 
> You should move over to BIND_DLZ. It had never tried that, but I guess it should work like the switch from internal DNS:
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/DNS#Changing_from_Internal_DNS_to_BIND
> 
> Here you find information about how to setup BIND_DLZ:
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Dns-backend_bind#Configuring_Bind_as_Samba_Active_Directory_backend
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> So the share mgmt tools, dns, dhcp, etc should all work then?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> 
>> I guess i better get reading to figure out what is wrong
> > with my fresh install then.
> 
> You should try the switch over to BIND_DLZ first. And if you still have problems, just come back to the list. :-)
> 
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> 
> Regards,
> Marc

I actually got an install going last night with a Bind DLZ backend. I have all the tools up and running. The tutorials I had followed had skipped a few details. I plan on writing out my notes in a very “step-by-step” method.

Regards,

D