[Samba] Samba 4 / DNS

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2012-12-11 at 12:49 -0500, John Drescher wrote:
> Is there any way to have Samba 4 / AD servers not connected to the
> internet and still have DNS working on the windows clients? My samba 3
> servers are not permitted to be connected to the company network /
> internet so I have 2 nics in each desktop. 1 connecting to the private
> gigabit network where my samba 3 servers exist. The other connects to
> the company + internet.

Samba doesn't require internet connectivity, but yes, you will have to
work out how to ensure that the desktops can both resolve the name of
the AD DC and names elsewhere on the network.  This would seem to be a
challenge in your setup, but perhaps you can have another dual-homed box
running BIND, with a forwarder pointing to Samba4, and otherwise
forwarding to the rest of the world.  Then your dual-homed boxes could
use that as their DNS server. 

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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