inhibit startup of smbd/nmbd/winbindd when an AD DC (was Re: Releasing Samba 4.0 RC1?)

[steve]

On 18/08/12 23:50, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-18 at 19:48 +0200, Michael Wood wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 17 August 2012 23:52, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2012-08-17 at 13:46 -0300, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
>
>> I think it might help to make it extremely clear and explicit that
>> Samba 4 can be run as a DC using the samba binary, or it can be run
>> like a Samba 3 file/print server using the smbd/nmbd binaries, and any
>> other modes it can be used in.  I know the release notes try to do
>> this, but I think there's still a lot of confusion from users.
>
> I actually plan to do more than that.  It's a little tricky (which is
> why it's not done yet), and I'll allow an override, but being a AD DC
> puts 'server role = active directory domain controller' in the smb.conf.
> I would like to have smbd/nmbd/winbindd check this value and then simply
> fail to start up.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
Hi
Oh dear. That sounds bad. Does that mean that we will no longer be able 
to use AD, s3fs and winbind on the same box as we can do (reliably) at 
the moment?
Cheers,
Steve