Samba4 success as a peer-DC to Windows 2008 ... plus some questions.

[Charles Tryon]

Just a note that the attached startup script works for Debian based systems
(such as Ubuntu), but not for RedHat/Fedora based systems.

This sounds like another good topic for a Wiki page.  :-P


On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Carlos Miguel Bustillo Rodriguez <
cbustillo at uclv.edu.cu> wrote:

> Hi>
>
> >Just an update below. It seems smbd doesn't run when there is a pid file
> in
> >/var/run/samba/samba-filserver.pid - removing this resulting in me
> browsing
> >the samba shares. What is the right way of stopping and restarting samba
> >gracefully?
>
>
> >hb
>
>
> You can try with the attached script to start, restart and stop Samba4.
> To active at start up you must:
> 1) Save the script in /etc/init.d/ (or directory for init script in your
> distro)
> 2) Set the correct permission:
>     chmod 755 /etc/init.d/samba4
> 3) Enable at start up:
>     cd /etc/init.d/
>     update-rc.d samba4 defaults
>
> To start, restart and stop:
> /etc/init.d/samba start
>  /etc/init.d/samba restart
> /etc/init.d/samba stop
>
> For debug samba4:
>  samba -i -M single -d2
> where -d2 is the level of debug, you can specify another number.
>
> Make sure you put the bin and sbin directories from your new install in
> your $PATH
>
> Regards, Carlos
>
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>


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    Charles Tryon
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