[Samba] Samba 4 / DNS

[Thomas Simmons]

Hello John,

If you have multi-homed systems, why can't you specify multiple DNS servers
on the workstations (one from the "public" network and the AD server on the
"private" network). Of course this assumes your using a domain name that
the first DNS server can't resolve. Also, when you say "My samba 3 servers
are not permitted to be connected to the company network/internet", does
this mean directly connected? You could configure ICS (NAT) on one of the
W7 systems and have your S4 server forward all requests to the DNS server
on the primary network. This is how I'm currently running my S4 test setup
to keep it segregated from my main network which is controlled by an S3 PDC.


On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 6:31 PM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:

> > 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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