[Samba] On Samba4

[titantoppler at gmail.com]

Hi,

Matthieu:
> So offloading DHCP on another server is not a problem at all, when it
comes to DNS it's more problematic although you can cope with > it.
> Why not creating a sub domain for your AD realm ? (ie. ad.mycompany.com).
What is this setup you're referring to? Do you mean that the main DNS server
delegates authority for the ad.mycompany.com subdomain to the DC, and the
domain for the Samba network be on ad.mycompany.com?

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Matthieu Patou <mat at samba.org> wrote:

> On 07/06/2011 19:12, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:56 AM,<titantoppler at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> 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 my version of Samba is kind of outdated (alpha 12), so what worked for me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.
>>>
>>>        Well, I am ashamed to say I too am running right now alpha 12
>> because that is what came in ubuntu 10.10. So, hopefully I should be
>> able to duplicate your stuff ;)
>>
> Well I could just recommend you not to do so, there is more recent
> packages:
> https://launchpad.net/~samba-team/+archive/ppa
>
> I would really advocate to follow them or even better to get a very recent
> and build your own .deb based on the ppa package.
> Alpha 12 is _really_ old now, you'll miss a lot of new features like
> protected storage, dirsync, and a lot of bug fixes on replication, on
> password management and fixes on scalability (serving more than 1 LDAP
> request at a time ...).
>
>
>
>
>>  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).
>>>
>>>        Right now my "normal" DNS server can do the dynamic dns updates.
>> I am, however, wondering which other things I need to provide. For
>> instance, I would expect stuff like netbios-node-type and
>> netbios-name-servers can be provided by my current dhcp server without
>> hurting the samba4 AD behaviour. I could be wrong...
>>
> So offloading DHCP on another server is not a problem at all, when it comes
> to DNS it's more problematic although you can cope with it.
> Why not creating a sub domain for your AD realm ? (ie. ad.mycompany.com).
>
>
> Matthieu.
>
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