Samba AD DC Howto 'make over'

Bob Cavey wedgeshot at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 16:48:18 MST 2013


Good work so far. Maybe seem trivia but I'd recommend to put Requirements(
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4/OS_Requirements ) in the Install
section or prior as that can be easy to miss .. my 2 cents.

 - Bob


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:58 AM, Ricky Nance <
ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.us> wrote:

> Howto temp page has been updated, any other suggestions/comments on this?
> How about thoughts on making this THE howto?
>
> Ricky
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Ricky Nance <
> ricky.nance at weaubleau.k12.mo.us> wrote:
>
> > Mark, I went ahead and started a configure your firewall page at
> > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configure_your_firewall<
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configure_your_firewall> if
> > you wouldn't mind adding how you added your rules (I am completely out of
> > the loop when it comes to IPTables) and linked this to the page
> referenced
> > in my first mail, also I added the line for the dns troublshooting as
> well,
> > however with samba 4.0.1+ this should be less of an issue I hope.
> >
> > Ricky
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Mark Pilant <lpilant at us.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Ricky.
> >>
> >> I took a look at your update, given all my recent interest :-)  In
> >> general it is good.  However I would make the following suggestions:
> >>
> >> 1)  Add something to say when running with Samba's internal DNS server,
> >> the installer needs to make sure Bind is not installed/enabled on the
> >> system.  If Bind is running in addition to Samba's internal DNS server,
> all
> >> manner of confusion will result.
> >>
> >> 2)  When running with a firewall, several protocols/ports must be
> enabled
> >> to allow Samba 4 to operate as expected.  These are:
> >>  o  DNS; port 53
> >>  o  Multicast DNS; port 5353
> >>  o  Samba; ports 139, 445, 137, 138
> >>  o  EPMMAP; port 135
> >>  o  LDAP; port 389
> >>  o Kerberos; port 88
> >>  o Port 1024
> >>  o  VNC-Server; port 5900 (If VNC is needed for the system running Samba
> >> 4)
> >>
> >> For krb5.conf, I used the file created as part of the Samba 4
> >> installation; with the addition of the logging parameters from the
> original
> >> system Kerberos installation.
> >>
> >> These are the changes I found necessary/desirable to successfully build
> >> and install Samba 4 on a RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.3 system, create a
> >> domain, and join a Windows 7 and Windows 8 system to the domain.
> >>
> >> - Mark
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
>
>
> --
>


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