[Samba] Some questions

[Rowland Penny]

On 23/08/15 17:10, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> After years of delays and side trips, I really am going to dive in and 
> build my own Samba server.  And I have a few questions.
>
> All of my servers will be ARM.  The main hardware will be Cubieboards 
> (2 and truck).  They will be running Centos-7 once the development is 
> finished.  For now I am using Fedora 22 arm.  My backup file server 
> will be a pogoplug (armv5) with Redsleeve 7.1.
>
> My current environment is ClearOS with a handful of XP systems with 
> roaming profiles.  Of course this is an Intel server.
>
> So on to some questions...
>
> I am reading an old how to I pulled a year?  ago:
>
> WIP_Beginner HowTo - SOHO business server - SambaWiki.html
>
> And it says IPv6 not supported.  Well time has flown, and I really 
> want IPv6 support.  Can I ignore the turning off of IPv6 as 
> instructed?  Oh, samba versions in the repos are:
>
> Fedora 22 arm:                     4.2.2-1
> Redsleeve 7.1:                      4.1.12-23
> Centos 7.1 arm pre-alpha:    4.1.12-21
>
> So since I don't want to run a Fedora samba server for production, I 
> should stay with 4.1 functionality.
>
> With the cost of Cubieboards, I will have one for the domain 
> controller and at least one for files (plus the pogoplug for backup 
> server).
>
> So on with the meat of things.
>
> I can use tools on the Fedora 22 build to do an initial build and then 
> copy them to the Centos/Redsleeve builds (which will not have a GUI 
> desktop).  With Fedora I am using Xfce (this IS arm afterall).
>
> Is there a more recent set of instructions with such things as IPv6 
> support?
>
> Should I go with the rpm distributions or sernet?  Will sernet build 
> on armv7 and armv5?

You could have a problem here, I don't know if you have noticed, but 
there are no distro packages for RHEL (and clones) for a samba4 DC, 
never mind ARM. There is a reason for this, Samba use Heimdal kerberos 
and RHEL uses MIT, you probably can build samba 4 yourself but I don't 
think you can get the exact sources to build the Sernet packages.

I know nothing about the  Cubieboard but I presume it is somewhat 
similar to the rpi and I do know you can run a samba4 DC on that, but 
all the howtos seem to want you to use raspbian, a debian offshoot, are 
you totally fixed on using fedora?

>
> My domain is htt-consult.com, and it is really no problem to create a 
> subdomain of home.htt-consult.com.  But I would really like to run my 
> domain as home.htt as I do with ClearOS right now and I did some time 
> back with Amahi.  Other than setting up the TLD of .htt (which I have 
> done), is there anything of note?

It is recommended that your TLD is not resolvable from the internet, 
after that it is up to you, with just one caveat, don't use a .local domain.

>
>
> What is the opinion on BIND/DHCPD vs DNSMASQ?  I have lots of 
> experience with BIND and can get around DHCPD.  For DNSMASQ, I would 
> have to copy something else (like the conf from my current server).
>

The best thing you could do with DNSMASQ is 'yum remove dnsmasq' if it 
is installed. Samba4 running as a DC comes with its own DNS server, you 
can use this or Bind9. If you want to use DHCP, then I would recommend 
using Bind, they work very well together, provided they are set up 
correctly.

Rowland

> Initially there will only be XP systems with roaming profiles.  I will 
> be adding Windows7, which I really do not have any experience with to 
> know if anything list roaming profiles exist by that or any other name.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
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