Query regarding samba working as domain controller

[Rowland Penny]

On 09/09/15 15:52, Anoop Singh wrote:
> Hi Learned Members,
>
> I have a two small queries regarding samba working as domain controller.
>
> 1.       Do we need to assign static ip in /etc/network/interfaces to configure samba as domain controller? Can't it be dhcp acquired IP? Can we assign 127.0.01 and still it work?

You can run your AD DC with an IP address obtained via DHCP, but it is 
not recommended, your clients need to find the DC easily and should 
therefore have a fixed IP. If you mean 127.0.0.1 instead of 127.0.01, 
please don't even think of using this, it is reserved for 'localhost' , 
don't use anything starting with '127'

>
> 2.       When samba is configured as domain controller, we run samba instead of smbd. In this case can we achieve samba file share along with domain controller configuration as file share needs smbd to run?

You start the 'samba' daemon, but this in turn starts the 'smbd' daemon 
and depending on what version of Samba 4 you use, it either uses the 
'winbind' built into the 'samba' daemon or (from 4.2.0) it will start 
the separate 'winbindd' daemon.

>
> When I connect samba to windows active directory, I can achieve samba file share also as in this case smbd runs and not samba.

The 'smbd' daemon is run on all versions of Samba 4, unless you are not 
running as an AD DC and you choose not to start it. If you are running 
Samba 4 as an AD DC, you can use it as a fileserver, but this not 
recommended.

Rowland

> Please provide me the clarification.
>
> Thanks & regards,
> Anoop.
>