Samba AD DC Howto 'make over'

[Ricky Nance]

Bob, the OS Requirements have been moved to the
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Build_Samba<https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Build_Samba>
page,
because once packages start to hit the repos adding that info in the howto
makes it more confusing, and some of these won't be needed as the packages
will take care to install what is necessary. With that being said, I need
to run back through that build_samba page and revamp it just a bit.

Ricky


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Bob Cavey <wedgeshot at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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