Domain join as BDC

[Amitay Isaacs]

Hi Daniele,

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Daniele Dario <d.dario76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi samba team,
> which is the right way to join a new samba4 DC to a domain with a samba4
> PDC having also DNS zones replicated?
>
> PDC is running samba4 Version 4.0.0alpha18-GIT-32317b0 provisioned with
> --dns-backend=BIND9_DLZ and with bind 9.9.0b1.
>
> The secondary DC is running samba4 Version 4.0.0alpha18-GIT-c2d6509 and
> bind 9.9.0b1.
>
> I tried to join it with
> samba-tool domain join SAITELITALIA DC -U administrator
> --realm=saitelitalia.local
> and join has worked but DNS zones where not replicated between the two
> DCs.
>
> With samba-tool I added replication for
> DC=DOMAINDNSZONES,DC=SAITELITALIA,DC=LOCAL
> DC=FORESTDNSZONES,DC=SAITELITALIA,DC=LOCAL
> but it does not work for the copy in private/dns/sam.ldb and
> private/dns/sam.ldb.d/ .
>
> Cheers,
> Daniele.
>
> P.S.
> Happy new year to all of you.
>

Currently the join code does not have the logic to replicate
application partitions. So right now
there is no easy way to add DNS partitions on second DC.

Amitay.