[Samba] splitting services in samba4

[Ben Metcalfe]

Assuming samba 4 supports them, watch out for your FSMO roles; each role
will be specific to one server in the domain. Recovering from the loss of a
server that currenty owns one or more of the FMSO roles is a little
trickier than just booting another peer-DC to handle requests.

On Wednesday, 11 July 2012, Gémes Géza wrote:

> Hi Quinn,
>
>> Thanks for the quick response.
>>
>> So I guess if you wanted high availability, you would either have to
>> implement a PDC/BDC solution with samba4 or use samba4 on top of a
>> corosync/pacemaker cluster.  Is this correct?
>>
>> br,
>> Quinn
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Gémes Géza <geza at kzsdabas.hu> wrote:
>>
>>  2012-07-11 10:27 keltezéssel, Quinn Plattel írta:
>>>
>>>   Question:  Right now samba4 is great as in all-in-one solution (samba,
>>>
>>>> kerberos, ldap, dns) into one service.
>>>> Is it possible to split it up so that for example, I run openldap on one
>>>> server, kerberos on another server, and then dns/samba on a third
>>>> server?
>>>>
>>>> br,
>>>> Quinn
>>>>
>>>>  Short answer: NO
>>> Longer: Windows clients expect kerberos, ldap and samba rpc+filesharing
>>> services on the same host, so if you need AD functionality you couldn't
>>> separate them. They also expect a schema (the AD schema) which is
>>> incompatible with OpenLDAP.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Geza
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> The multiple AD DC (in active directory every (non readonly) DC is a sort
> of PDC) is the tried and recommended method (even by M$)
>
> Regards
>
> Geza
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