[Samba] Samba 4 how to provision as simply a member of a domain

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Sat Aug 25 00:04:32 MDT 2012


On 24/08/12 10:47, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 24/08/12 09:28, steve wrote:
>> Hi
>> I want to try out the Samba 4 versions of smbd, nmbd and winbindd (not
>> samba and not as a DC) on a box which I shall join to an existing domain.
>> How do I provision it? Or don't I and just join it using samba tool
>> domain join?
>> Cheers,
>> Steve
>>
> Hi Steve,
> You could try 'net ads join', the net command is there in
> /usr/local/samba/bin and this is the command that would be used from a
> samba 3 domain member, but I must say that I haven't yet tried this.
>
> Rowland
>
>
Hi Rowland
Yes, thanks I could alwasy do that but I thinking more of a samba'tool 
domain join method, as a member, not a dc. Anyone had any experience iof 
this? It looks too straightforaer to me. I must have missed something
Cheers,
Steve


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