Samba4 DNS Updates - Linux Clients - Is it possible?

[Mike Howard]

On 18/01/2012 15:34, Aaron E. wrote:
> Does doing it this way essentially have two entries in dns then?
> example.. I setup bind and samba4 and include the provisioned bind 
> files in my config.. I also have bind recording from DHCP to db.xxxx, 
> for the windows pc's does the entry get recoreded in two different 
> places? AD DNS and also bind DNS? It seems as though I would have to 
> have two zones that are the same in bind.. not sure how that would work..
> Or .. Could I not include the provisioned files and configure bind 
> with the proper required AD entries
If you try to use a standard DDNS setup along side Samba4 (that is 
separate zone files/dbs) you would have to have two different zones. If 
your standard bind9 setup is for 'mydomain' then the Samba4 AD domain 
could not also be mydomain. It would have to be for example 
'samba.mydomain' or something like, so not really much use that way.

In my case, because of the problems I'm experiencing with linux clients, 
I'm thinking do I need the Samba4 DDNS side of things? Will the Samba4 
AD side of things function without any Samba4 involvement in DNS. 
Michael, in an earlier response, seems to think it should.

Cheers,
Mike.
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