[Samba] Joining a linux server as a domain member with samba4

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Dec 11 20:24:26 MST 2012


On Thu, 2012-12-06 at 00:27 +0000, Dwyer, Simon wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Playing with Samba4 RC6 and its working amazing in my test network as a DC.
> 
> One thing i am not clear with is who to join a file server to it.
> 
> on the file server do i install samba4 the same way and run:
> 
> samba-tool domain join member ...
> 
> i did try net join ads but it seems it didnt compile in ads then i saw some people saying this was not the way to do it.
> 
> Soooo i just want to get a clear answer what is the recommended way on joining a linux server as a domain member with samba4?

You should compile with ADS support and you use 'net ads join'.  I've
tried to make 'samba-tool domain join member' also do reasonable things,
but without ADS support the end result won't work (and it isn't yet the
officially supported tool for that job). 

Andrew Bartlett

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