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

Matthieu Patou mat at samba.org
Sat Aug 25 15:38:21 MDT 2012


On 08/24/2012 11:04 PM, steve wrote:
> 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
Samba-tool commands is highly related to DC operation mode, for the 
member operation mode the net command is your companion.
> Cheers,
> Steve


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