Problems setting up (fresh) Samba 4 installation

[Mark Pilant]

Hi Rowland.

> In smb.conf, you need to have the line 'dns forwarder = <a good external
dns server ip address>'
> For instance 'dns forwarder = 208.67.222.222', this is the nameserver
that all unknown requests are sent to.
> It is the internal dns server that forwards requests,
not /etc/resolv.conf.

I can understand about the forwarder for Samba, but only if it was handling
*all* the DNS requests.  Does that mean named on the host system is really
nothing more than a jacket forwarding everything to the Samba code?

> You should only have one nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf and should point
to samba 4 server i.e. 'nameserver 127.0.0.1'

The reason for two entries is the system is operating in split-brain DNS
mode.  The primary DNS address being used for systems part of the "domain"
and the secondary DNS address used for everything else.

> All the zone files are created by the internal dns server and you cannot
easily alter them, nor do you need to.

OK.  This then begs the question: is the internal DNS server "replacing"
the DNS server which would ordinarily be used for non-Samba traffic?  E.g.,
web pages from a browser.

> Good , don't  install one, you will use the one built into Samba 4.0.0

Does this mean the one built into Samba will also be used for general
Kerberos requests within the "domain"?

I guess I'm just really confused about where the boundaries are (host
system and Samba) for things like DNS, Kerberos, etc.

- Mark, the puzzled :-) :-)