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

[Damien Dye]

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On 28 February 2014 16:14, Computer service SPb. <cpservicespb at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
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