Setting up local DNS on a member DC

Charles Tryon charles.tryon at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 08:30:37 MDT 2012


On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 18:02 -0400, Charles Tryon wrote:
> > I have to admit I haven't been following this thread too closely because
> I
> > was headed in a different direction with my S4 server, but my
> requirements
> > have just changed...  :-P
> >
> > I am testing joining a Samba4 DC to an existing WS2003 domain controller.
> >  I am actually contacting the Windows DC over a VPN.  Following the
> > Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC page, I have (apparently) successfully
> > joined the domain with my local server, and I am currently trying to see
> if
> > I can join a machine to the new domain (or at least see users and groups
> > from the domain).
> >
> > The one thing that isn't very clear from the HOWTO is what to do to set
> up
> > DNS on the new S4 server.  I tried to use the upgradedns tool, but I'm
> > getting a strange error:
> >
> > sudo /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba_upgradedns  --verbose
> > --realm=mydomain.local -Uadministrator
> > [sudo] password for ctryon:
> > Reading domain information
> > Cannot create AD based DNS for OS level < 2003
> >
> > What am I missing here???
>
> Application partitions (which is what we store the DNS in) require
> windows 2003 functional level.  We decided not to also support the
> windows 2000 level layout, which is different.
>

So, is this the functional level of the Windows AD server I am connecting
to, or something in the way that I created the Samba4 server?   (Sorry, I'm
really not that clear on how the WS2K3 server was set up, or even how to
figure out its settings...:-P )




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


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    Charles Tryon
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