[Samba] Samba 4 DC and member server, rfc3207, winbind, printing, asynchronous I/O - Problems and Fixes
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Tue Nov 19 04:27:29 MST 2013
On Tue, 2013-11-19 at 09:38 +0100, Stéphane PURNELLE wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Could you explain why the Samba Team's recommend to use a member
> server for file and print server tasks ?
>
> Because I want to put in production one server as a DC with file and
> print server task.
There are a few reasons:
- It allow a different upgrade cycle, allowing you to advance to new
versions of the AD DC or file server, without disrupting the other role
- The DC is the critical central box in any organisation. You should
have more than one DC, so it makes sense that they both be only a DC,
because other things (file/print) don't replicate in the same way.
- Because things like that raised here are not entirely surprising. We
glued together a lot of code to make the 4.0 release happen, and so we
are still finding corner cases. Only last week I worked on a very odd
case around server aliases on the AD DC, due to the way the DC needs to
handle MSDFS.
- The usual complaints about the winbind embedded in the AD DC - it
allows it not to be used for the file server.
Andrew Bartlett
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