[Samba] Samba 4 Restrict User Create

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 17 13:32:39 MST 2014


On 17/11/14 20:24, Greg Zartman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:35 AM, Rowland Penny 
> <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com <mailto:rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>>      2) Running dnscache in front of Samba4 DNS.
>
>     Again, I never said that this wouldn't work, I questioned the way
>     that you were trying to do it. I still think that you do not need
>     the dns cache, you could just use Bind instead of the internal DNS
>     server.
>
>
> Samba's internal DNS is relatively new and not well battle tested, 
> especially under heavy loads.
>
> We felt better having a rock solid dnscache in front of Samba DNS.  
> Resolving DNS had nothing to do with it.

Well Bind (or Named as you probably call it) is rock solid and you 
definitely need to consider resolving DNS, without it, samba4 will not work!

Rowland

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