[Samba] sernet documentation
Rowland Penny
rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 20:53:15 UTC 2015
On 26/08/15 21:46, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
> On 08/26/2015 04:28 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 26/08/15 21:07, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 08/26/2015 03:50 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>> On 26/08/15 20:39, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08/26/2015 03:26 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>>>> On 26/08/15 20:14, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>>>>> One of the Centos 7 arm developers built the sernet 4.2 for me
>>>>>>> to start testing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://repo.shivaserv.fr/centos/7/shivaserv-sernet.repo
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://repo.shivaserv.fr/centos/7/sernet/armv7hl/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since these were built on qemu, not requiring specific armv7
>>>>>>> hardware, Perhaps at some point they can be adopted by Sernet.
>>>>>>> But for now, how to test....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't see any specific Sernet documentation. Like what is
>>>>>>> here and how to set it up, perhaps different, from generic Samba 4.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I searched the sernet web site and this list and came up empty,
>>>>>>> but my search foo is weak.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If Sernet just built samba for ARM, I do not think that it should
>>>>>> be any different to set up, so just follow the relevant
>>>>>> documentation on the samba wiki:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>>>>
>>>>> I was thinking that PERHAPS te sernet build could have specific
>>>>> configs for BIND and DHCP at the least. Unless Samba has already
>>>>> included these. For things like DYNDNS.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Could you be a bit more specific, you can use Bind with samba4 but
>>>> it is up to the sysadmin to set this up, though there is a page on
>>>> the samba wiki. DHCP, again the sysadmin will have to set this, but
>>>> there is not much on the wiki about this, but if all else fails, I
>>>> can help with this. Finally, I don't see where DYNDNS comes in here.
>>>
>>> Plowing through the wiki...
>>>
>>> I see where if I use the internal DNS provided, I will have to set
>>> up a forwarder. No problem, I have done that a lot. But I plan on
>>> using a private tld, htt. and the zone home.htt. I want these zones
>>> known to other systems on my network, so I want to slave them to my
>>> main DNS internal servers (I actually have a production and 2
>>> distinct test DNS servers). Perhaps I will find in the wiki how to
>>> do this, or find my old notes.
>>>
>>> Are workstations assigned DNS entries when they get their DHCP
>>> lease? So that 'den' becomes den.home.htt and diningroom becomes
>>> diningroom.home.htt? That is what I would think DYNDNS would be
>>> doing. Of course the file servers, nevia and vega would be
>>> nevia.home.htt and vega.home.htt? But since these are statically
>>> assigned, again, I am assuming there are ways to get them into the
>>> internal DNS.
>>
>> Unless things have changed, DHCP doesn't work with the samba internal
>> DNS server, it does however work with the Bind9 DNS server, I have
>> been using it since Dec 2012 on my home network 192.168.0.0/24 with
>> the domain name of home.lan. To get the domain name applied to the
>> clients, you just have to set them to ask for it and the DHCP to send
>> it. As for the static clients, you can use samba-tool to add these.
>
> I will ask a separate question on classicupgrade. From this it sounds
> like I need to put bind on this system. C7 has 9.9.4
>
> I have not used the DLZ function, or at least not knowingly :) What is
> one more thing to pick up!
It is not hard to pick up, it is just a matter of one file basically and
all the info is on the wiki except for the DHCP setup and as I said, I
can help you with this.
As for the classicupgrade (which you called migrate and this was what
threw me) again all the info is on the wiki.
>
>>
>>>
>>> Finally I am testing on one RFC1918 subnet (check out the authors of
>>> 1918) and then will move all the servers to another one. what will
>>> I need to do for this migration?
>>>
>>
>> What do you need to migrate ? if you set the first DC in a domain and
>> then add another DC, all the AD database will be replicated to it.
>
> ClearOS PDC (samba 3.6.23) on an Intel platform to Sernet Samba 4.3 on
> Centos7-arm.
>
>>
>> PS: you wouldn't be the B. Moskowitz from RFC would you ? (if you
>> are, sorry but until this post, I had never heard of you :-) )
>>
> One in the same. One of my claims to notoriety. You can blame me for
> nats and the delays in moving to IPv6.
>
As I don't use IPV6, I am not going to blame you for anything :-)
Rowland
> As some people know, I dabble here and dabble there...
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