[Samba] Samba4 acting as standalone server, smb.conf parameters and run daemons !

[Computer service SPb.]

Rowland, you are not right. I started and start nmbd daemon with samba
daemon.
But I don' t know requirements for server services as for started daemons
for standalone server.

2014-02-28 14:44 GMT+04:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>:

> On 28/02/14 09:24, Denis Cardon wrote:
>
>> Hi Computer service SPb
>>
>> > I have built Samba4 4.1.5 from sources and provisioned as standalone
>>
>>> server. I don' t need to act Samba4 as DC.
>>> I need fully working server, including shares access, network
>>> neighborhood
>>> browsing, LDAP (I suupose it should be anyway by default) .
>>>
>>
>> LDAP is used in DC environment to store user, group, machine accounts and
>> many other things. If you are planning to have a simple workgroup server, I
>> think your users should be stored in standard SAM like tdb files, like in
>> the 3.x serie.
>>
>>  What values should be added to smb.conf, in particular to server
>>> services ?
>>> Is dcerpc endpoint servers parameter necassary ?
>>> What daemons should be started,smbd, nmbd, winbindd, samba ?
>>>
>>
>> "samba" process is for DC role, so you shouldn't need it. I have no
>> experience of running nmbd independantly of "samba" process, in a DC
>> environmenent smbd et nmbd are started automatically by "samba" process.
>> And there is some caveat with the samba4 version of winbind.
>>
>
> If you provision samba4 with 'samba-tool domain provision' you can then
> only start the samba daemon, this in turn starts the smbd daemon, the
> daemons nmbd & winbindd will not start at all, even if you try to!
>
> If you want to use samba4 as a standalone server, just follow the howtos
> out on the internet for samba3, but refer to 'man smb.conf' to ensure that
> the parameters in smb.conf are still valid etc.
>
> Rowland
>
>
>
>>  Where is able to read for it.
>>> Because of there is info for Samba4 DC in the most internet resources.
>>>
>>
>> samba4 developpement is focused on DC support, so that is expected.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Denis
>>
>>
>>>
>>
>>
>