[Samba] On Samba4

[titantoppler at gmail.com]

Hi,

I'd be most happy to answer any questions you may have, though fair warning:
my version of Samba is kind of outdated (alpha 12), so what worked for me
might not work for you.

I'm not too familiar with offloading the DNS service to another computer; as
you may have surmised, my setup has the DNS on the Samba server. I think the
main thing about having a DNS server is getting it to accept updates from
clients (dynamic DNS updates for browsing).

I believe I am running a pure S4 setup; I recall that the S3+S4 thing
confused me mightily at the beginning. I'd have to check to make sure
though; how can I do this?

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:04 AM,  <titantoppler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm running Samba4 alpha 12 as the only DC and file server on my local
> > network.
> >
> > It is working well. After the initial setup, everything can be managed
> from
> > a Windows workstation.
> >
> > Functions I've tried so far:
> > - Group policy objects
> > - Adding / removing users
> > - Roaming profiles
> > - DNS updates
> >
> > Essentially the main functions you would expect from a Win 2k3 server
> will
> > be there. It's been almost 10 months since I installed it, and it's been
> > smooth sailing so far.
> >
> > Some features have been added / tweaked with the latest alpha 14, but I
> have
> > not kept up to date.
> >
>       What you have there is exactly all I want to do. I might need to
> harass you for any details. My main question right now has to do with
> DNS and DHCP: since the box is running bind, must it be the master for
> that zone? After all, I already have a happy dns/dhcp server. Can I
> get away making the samba4 box a slave bind box and just add the
> relevant options (netbios-whatever) to my current dhcp?
>
> > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >>        I keep hearing Samba 4 is not ready to be used. Can anyone
> elaborate
> >> on its current status?
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