Success: samba4 on gentoo

Dirk Gouders gouders at et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de
Wed Sep 7 14:39:19 MDT 2011


James Gilliland <neclimdul at gmail.com> writes:

> I have an ebuild I've been using. I've been building it just fine but I hadn't
> posted the ebuild back to github yet. I've had some trouble getting samba 3.5
> DNS so I'd held of publishing it in case there was a problem. Looks liek that
> might be something else though so if people are interested in an ebuild I'll
> post it so we can collaborate.

Thanks for the offer, James.  I would be interested in the ebuild.

Dirk

> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Dirk Gouders <
> gouders at et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote:
>
>
>     > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:32:10 +0200, Dirk Gouders
>     > <gouders at et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote:
>     >>as suggested in the wiki I'd like to report success in running samba4
>     >>(current git clone) on a gentoo system.
>     >
>     > just out of curiosity: Did you use one of the ebuilds for samba-git,
>     > available from various portage overlays? If yes, which one?
>     > Did you have to do adjustments to the ebuild in question?
>
>     No, I built it manually -- first time like this:
>
>     $ ./configure.developer --enable-fhs --prefix=/usr
>     $ make
>     $ make quicktest
>     $ make install
>
>     Before I switch to ebuilds I want to get a deeper understanding of
>     samba4 so that I get a feeling where to search for errors should
>     problems arise.
>
>     Currently I am testing replication and did a fresh install with some
>     other configure options:
>
>     ./configure.developer --enable-fhs \
>                          --prefix=/usr \
>                          --sysconfdir=/etc/ \
>                          --localstatedir=/var \
>                          --with-modulesdir=/usr/lib/samba/modules \
>                          --with-privatedir=/var/lib/samba/private \
>                          --with-lockdir=/var/cache/samba \
>                          --with-logfilebase=/var/log/samba \
>                          --with-piddir=/var/run/samba
>
>     I currently have some problems with "samba-tool domain join" but I think
>     that has nothing to do with samba but with the fact that for the domain
>     in question there are no proper DNS entries:
>
>     $ samba-tool domain join swt-pool.test.lab DC -Uadministrator --realm=
>     SWT-POOL.TEST.LAB
>     Finding a writeable DC for domain 'swt-pool.test.lab'
>     ERROR(exception): uncaught exception - Failed to find a writeable DC for
>     domain 'swt-pool.test.lab'
>      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line
>     141, in _run
>        return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", line
>     110, in run
>        domain_critical_only=domain_critical_only)
>      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 585, in
>     join_DC
>        ctx = dc_join(server, creds, lp, site, netbios_name, targetdir, domain)
>      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 63, in
>     __init__
>        ctx.server = ctx.find_dc(domain)
>      File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 173, in
>     find_dc
>        raise Exception("Failed to find a writeable DC for domain '%s'" %
>     domain)
>
>     Dirk


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