missing /usr/local/samba/private/dns

[Greg Dickie]

Sounds great. Totally ready to be the guinea pig, just let me know what
you need. One small question though. Is the ultimate goal to use a
builtin DNS server? I thought this bind9 implementation was pretty cool.
Is it missing anything that's required?

Thanks for the quick response guys,
Greg

On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 13:43 +1100, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 16:24 -0500, Greg Dickie wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>  Perhaps another stupid question but I'm trying to get bind9 DLZ to work
> >> but it throws an error about
> >> missing /usr/local/samba/private/dns/sam.ldb. in fact
> >> the  /usr/local/samba/private/dns does not even exist.
> >>
> >> The DC was created with domain join and I seem to have the DNS data in
> >> /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb.d but how to I get samba to create (and
> >> update) the DNS files? I read a thread that implied they can not just be
> >> copied and samba will need to keep them updated I suppose.
> >>
> >> I want to transition away from the windows DC.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >
> > What I think we need to do is extend
> > source4/scripting/bin/samba_upgradedns to cope with this situation.  In
> > your case, we need to create the account for BIND9 and the special dns
> > directory, but we don't need to create the actual partition.  This can
> > be detected based on inspecting the directory.
> >
> > We should then put this into the tail of the join.py code.
> >
> > Amitay,
> >
> > As this is your script, do you have any further thoughts?
> 
> Yes, I also thought of the same thing. Right now use samba_upgradedns
> to fix the dns provision for DLZ_BIND9. I wouldn't want to add it to
> join.py since it doesn't really belong there. This is just a special
> solution for DLZ_BIND9. Once we have internal DNS, we don't really
> need to do anything special. I will update the script, so it can be
> used on provisioned database after join. In fact one should be able to
> run the script without having any side effects, even if everything is
> as it should be.
> 
> 
> Amitay.

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