[Samba] Samba4 acting as standalone server, smb.conf parameters and run daemons !
Rowland Penny
rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Fri Feb 28 13:27:31 MST 2014
On 28/02/14 20:02, Computer service SPb. wrote:
> I have provisioned Samba4 as the following:
> /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool domain provision --host-name=Router
> --realm=mygroup.net <http://mygroup.net> --domain=MyGroup
> --host-ip=192.168.0.254 --adminpass='Admin1234' --server-role=dc
> --function-level=2008_R2 --use-rfc2307 --use-xattrs=auto
> --dns-backend=BIND9_DLZ
> I use Bind9, I tested it for setting up of Samba4 for Openchange in
> previous year and I get it nicely working together (Samba4 and Bind9
> as dynamic config) .
> There IS network browsing with a Samba4 AD server - either I have
> access via Netbios names or browsing (except some conditions for
> pptp/l2tp VPN users, but even for they I have working browsing) . I
> don' t have any wins in Lan. I had server role as "active directory
> domain controller" as "dc" .
> So, may be I should not but I start nmbd by myself written script
> after samba binary start.
> Because if I don' t start nmbd I will not get browsing.
There is no 'may be' about it, do not run nmbd with the samba daemon, if
you care to follow the link I posted, somewhere along the line of
postings is the reason why not.
> When I talked with Andrew (in the previous year or year before it) as
> I remember he said that samba binary controls other daemons (in DC
> variant) and run it and may be browsing functions will be added later
> in samba binary for DC opertional. But to this time there is not
> still code for browsing in samba binary.
The devs are concentrating on other, more valuable things at the moment,
they will get to network browsing as soon as possible.
> But, there is one value that has to be set up in smb.conf file what
> Samba4 as DC allow to get nmbd working and allow to have browsing.
I have never heard of this value, what is it???
> To prove it I can to think to provide pptp access to my server (it is
> as router /vpn with samba4 installed) that you could see by your own
> eyes that all works fine.
I know that it seems to work, but there are hidden problems with doing it.
Rowland
>
>
> 2014-02-28 23:42 GMT+04:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
> <mailto:rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>>:
>
> On 28/02/14 19:20, Computer service SPb. wrote:
>
> Ok, for standalone server.
> What about dcerpc endpoint ?
> But as I wrote earlier about Nmbd while Samba4 as DC at the
> moment I have
> fully working configuration of Samba4 DC (samba binary is run)
> and nmbd
> binary is started and run with it.
> But I start nmbd separatelly by script written by me after
> samba binary is
> started (when Samba4 acts as DC) .
> And more over I have even semi worked configuration of Samba4
> as DC and
> nmbd with browsing of Lan / VPN (client-to-server) clients
> when they could
> see each other in their neighborhood (but works partly because
> of VPN
> clients I don' t know why but could be as master/backup
> browser at the
> moment and I didn' t set up Samba4 as Wins) .
>
>
> You seem to be at the same point as I was 18 months ago and I
> asked a similar question:
>
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2012-August/086041.html
>
> It was explained to me that you should not run the samba daemon
> with the nmbd daemon and I was sure that Andrew Bartlett altered
> Samba so that this wasn't possible, but you seem to be doing this,
> just how did you provision samba?
>
> There is no network browsing with a Samba4 AD server, but you can
> navigate via address.
>
> Rowland
>
>
>
> 2014-02-28 23:08 GMT+04:00 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org
> <mailto:abartlet at samba.org>>:
>
> On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 20:14 +0400, Computer service SPb.
> 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.
>
> We have code to assist our administrators to run the right
> daemons while
> we have this split mode of operation. You may well be
> able to start
> 'samba' as a standalone server, but it will exit on
> startup. Likewise,
> when running 'nmbd' on an AD DC, this will also exit.
>
> Please don't be confused by the 'server services' setting,
> this is not
> relevant for a standalone server.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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