[Samba] Fwd: Re: samba4 AD controller, production

Matthieu Patou mat at samba.org
Fri Dec 10 13:15:11 MST 2010


Copied the list as I guess it will be more interesting for them



On Friday 10/12/2010 at 9:11 am, Matthieu Patou  wrote:
>  On 04/12/2010 19:52, Yassen Damyanov wrote:
>>
>>  Hello, list,
>>
>>  Anyone running a recent version of samba4 as the only one AD
>>  controller in the domain, *in production*? If so, what is your overall
>>  experience?
>>
>>  I am going to make such an install for a site with some 50 users (and
>>  frankly speaking, I am frightened ... so give me some courage!)

Been using it for 8 months now. 3 Samba4 servers and a W2K3R2 and
Samba4 as PDC, no real problems.  Bit more lag than I'd like with
account updates across controllers. DNS can give a few headaches, esp.
if you're not comfortable with BIND. I'm quite comfortable with it for
a reasonbly small deployment.
>
>>
>>
>>
>  Running samba4 in production for nearly 3 years now, no big big
>  problem
>  (well a couple of quite annoying bugs in the first 6 months, but since
>  then it's quite smooth).
>
>  Do a daily backup of your samba provision (use
>  scripting/bin/samba_backup) and put a script to monitor the state of
>  samba4's ldap (ie:
>
>     while true; do
>  ldbsearch -H ldap://localhost '(samaccountname=administrator)'
>  if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
>           do_restart
>  fi
>  sleep 60
>  )
>
>  As for the moment we only start 1 ldap task if the samba process which
>  is holding this task is killed (because of segfault) you'll find
>  yourself without ldap which is not very a good thing ...
>
>  Matthieu
>
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