Samba4 DNS - Some objects grayed out in Windows DNS tool

Brian C. Huffman bhuffman at etinternational.com
Tue Aug 7 09:02:23 MDT 2012


Anyone have any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
Brian

On 08/03/2012 10:00 AM, Brian C. Huffman wrote:
> All,
>
> I've seen this before, but I'm getting ready to migrate to Samba4 for 
> directory services in my company and it makes me a little wary not 
> knowing why this happens.  I see some entries at the top of my Windows 
> DNS tool that are folders instead of standard entries and then some 
> more that are folders that are grayed out.  In all cases these should 
> be standard host records but somehow they're also listed here as 
> folders (I'm not referring to the system ones like "_sites", "_tcp", 
> etc).  Each folder also has a correct matching host record.  I believe 
> in the past I've been able to make some of the gray entries go away by 
> restarting samba.  But currently I'm not able to get rid of them all.
>
> Can someone explain if this is expected behavior?  Is there any harm 
> in it?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian



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