[Samba] What is Samba_dsdb???

[Rowland Penny]

On 27/10/14 16:35, Greg Zartman wrote:
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2014 1:54 AM, "Rowland Penny" <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > On 27/10/14 02:26, Greg Zartman wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 1:42 AM, Rowland Penny 
> <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com <mailto:rowlandpenny at googlemail.com> 
> <mailto:rowlandpenny at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>>> wrote:
> >>
> >>     I don't think that I actually said that samba4 could only be an AD
> >>     DC, in fact samba4 can do anything that samba3 can do as well.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Indeed.  I was going off of your statement that the only supported 
> mode is "Active Directory Domain Controller."
> >
> >
> > No, I never said that either.
> >
> > Rowland
>
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2014-April/180336.html
>
OK, I thought that you were referring to this thread =-O

The thread that you are quoting really has nothing to do with this 
thread, but, as far as I know, the only server that you can get directly 
from running 'samba-tool domain provision' is a DC.

I know it says that the server-role can be a DC, MEMBER SERVER, MEMBER 
or STANDALONE, but as far as I know only the DC provision works. It was 
pointed out that if you provision as a 'MEMBER SERVER' then join this to 
the domain, you do get a domain server. I have never really investigated 
this further than the 'join' part because it is easier to just set up a 
member server via smb.conf i.e. the original way.

Rowland