Domain join as BDC

[Amitay Isaacs]

Hi Daniele,

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Daniele Dario <d.dario76 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Amitay,
>
> On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 17:04 +1100, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
>> 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.
>
> is it in the team plans to add this? is it scheduled and already in
> charge of someone? can I contribute (I'm a good C/C++ programmer, seen
> python but never had time to work with) in some way?
>
> Daniele.

I will be working on the code to support replication of application partitions.
It might be a week or two before you will be able to test it though.

Amitay.