[Samba] recommendations for new AD with samba as backup DC
Stefan Kania
stefan at kania-online.de
Sat Jan 20 11:38:04 UTC 2024
Hi
you don't need a Windows-DC it's much better and easier if you set up
both DCs with the same OS. 4.19 comes with FL 2016 (if you need it). The
GPOs work absolutely the same as with a windows DC. You can use RSAT to
do it.
Stefan
Am 19.01.24 um 22:07 schrieb Mikel Pérez via samba:
> I'm about to deploy a new directory since I had only one Windows
> Server 2019 DC and its storage died out (specifically, a block/page
> where part of ntdis.dit happened to be stored because I was able to
> rescue everything else. amazing)
>
> Anyways, this time around I definitely need to have a backup DC. I
> planned to have Windows be the primary DC and samba be the backup. I
> wanted to know what precautions should I take,
> - I saw that samba is still being prepared for functional level 2016
> and schema 2019, is this still the case? should I instead provision
> the domain as 2012R2 or 2008R2?
> - should I instead have the samba one be the primary DC?
>
> I never got GPOs working on a domain with just one samba DC as primary
> even with a heimdal build (and the MIT one had weird issues when
> authenticating on other machines for RDP) so I do need a windows
> server DC and I'm guessing it has to be the primary DC.
>
> I'd love to know before I spend time in vain setting up a new forest
> based on bad decisions that I have to tear down and recreate after
> finding out I made mistakes :')
>
> Thanks in advance <3
>
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