[Samba] Samba 4 / DNS

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Tue Dec 11 16:31:54 MST 2012


> 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.
>

Thanks.  That confirmed what I thought. I would not be permitted to
have the DNS server so that would prevent me from this.

John


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