Samba4 BDC with Samba4 PDC

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 09:59 +0100, Mike Howard wrote:
> I have had samba4 (Version 4.0.0alpha21-GIT-073666e) up and running as 
> the PDC on my network, currently with BIND9_DLZ and Bind9.9, working 
> well for a little while.
> 
> For redundancy, I'd like to add a Samba 4 BDC, also BIND9_DLZ with 
> Bind9.9. To this end I grabbed the latest from git (Version 
> 4.0.0alpha22-GIT-29a51a2) and installed it, however there is not a lot 
> (any?) info out there on how things should be done _properly_ from a 
> configuration point of view, i.e. on the BDC is there a smb.conf or not, 
> how is the krb5.conf configured, how is /etc/resolv.conf configured?
> 
> Anyway, I can join the the BDC to the domain with;

...
> Joined domain MYDOMAIN (SID S-1-5-21-2874647136-1364824720-2698236840) 
> as a DC
> 
> The process of joining the BDC to the domain seems to shutdown bind on 
> the PDC and neither '/usr/local/samba/private/named.conf' nor 
> '/usr/local/samba/private/dns/' are created on the BDC.
> 
> I can (and did) add the followong to my 'named.conf.local'.
> 
> dlz "AD DNS Zone" {
>      # For BIND 9.9.0
>          database "dlopen /usr/local/samba/lib/bind9/dlz_bind9_9.so";
> };
> 
> but bind will not restart as '/usr/local/samba/private/dns/' and it's 
> contents are missing.
> 
> Can anybody give me some pointers or point me at any info that will help 
> with the correct configuration?

See the other posts on this list about ensuring the DNS partitions are
replicated, then run samba_upgradedns to populate the DNS directory for
the second DC. 

There is a fair bit of info in the list archives on this.  Hopefully we
can make this more automatic in the future.

Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org