[Samba] DNS backend on samba4 nt4 style

[Rowland Penny]

On 11/12/14 20:10, Elias Pereira wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> It is possible to work with the "dns-backend = SAMBA_INTERNAL" in Samba4
> NT4 style?

In a word, *NO*

A classic NT4 style domain does not have a DNS server built in, your 
server could use Bind9 or similar, but it wouldn't be part of samba.

Rowland

>
> I followed the link below, but there was some errors.
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Changing_the_DNS_backend
>
> Errors:
>
> *# samba_upgradedns --dns-backend=SAMBA_INTERNAL*
> *lpcfg_load: refreshing parameters from /etc/samba/smb.conf*
> *params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file
> "/etc/samba/smb.conf"*
> *Reading domain information*
> *lpcfg_load: refreshing parameters from /etc/samba/smb.conf*
> *params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file
> "/etc/samba/smb.conf"*
> *module samba_dsdb initialization failed : No such object*
> *Unable to load modules for /var/lib/samba/private/sam.ldb:
> dsdb_module_search_dn: did not find base dn @ROOTDSE (0 results)*
> *Traceback (most recent call last):*
> *  File "/usr/sbin/samba_upgradedns", line 259, in <module>*
> *    ldbs = get_ldbs(paths, creds, system_session(), lp)*
> *  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/upgradehelpers.py", line
> 140, in get_ldbs*
> *    ldbs.sam = SamDB(paths.samdb, session_info=session, credentials=creds,
> lp=lp, options=["modules:samba_dsdb"])*
> *  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/samdb.py", line 56, in
> __init__*
> *    options=options)*
> *  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/__init__.py", line 114, in
> __init__*
> *    self.connect(url, flags, options)*
> *  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/samdb.py", line 71, in
> connect*
> *    options=options)*
> *_ldb.LdbError: (32, 'dsdb_module_search_dn: did not find base dn @ROOTDSE
> (0 results)')*
>
>