[Samba] Samba As PDC: Wrong Workgroup?

[Jim Seymour]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:54:09 +0100
Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> Well, there are couple of things I can see wrong, one on the howto
> and one in your smb.conf, first the howto:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 127.0.1.1 pdc.mydomain.local pdc
> 
> 10.0.0.5 pdc.mydomain.local pdc
> 
> Change it to this:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> #127.0.1.1 pdc.mydomain.local pdc
> 
> 10.0.0.5 pdc.mydomain.local pdc

I'd already done that, but thanks.

> 
> You are probably using dnsmasq, I would advise you to turn it off

No, I'm not.  I'm running bind9.  The server is also the primary (only,
actually) nameserver on the LAN.  (Or will be.)

> 
> Now your smb.conf
> 
> dns forwarder = 127.0.0.1
> 
> Change this to:
> 
> dns forwarder = 8.8.8.8 # or any other external DNS server
> 
> Lets see what happens once your DNS is correct.

BIND is already set up to forward requests for zones for which it's not
authoritative.

I'm confused as to why any of that would affect how smbd advertises
what workgroup it's in?

Thanks,
Jim