[Samba] Don't use .local

[Rowland Penny]

On 04/01/15 16:11, Donelson Trophy wrote:
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> During the Christmas holiday I created a AD DC & a MEMBER server (both
> on Debian 7.7.0) with these scripts (https://secure.bazuin.nl/scripts/)
> and thank you, L.P.H. van Belle.
>
> However, I have created them with a *.local TLD (that now I need to
> change.)
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> I will need to adjust my hostname files, need to re-configure the
> kerberos install and of course Bind9.
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> The hostname files I know how to change. No problem there.
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> The kerberos install, I think can be re-configured with
> 'dpkg-reconfigure'.

Don't bother, use the krb5.conf that the *NEW* DC provision creates, 
copy it to /etc/ on both machines.


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> As I have no experience (until now) with Bind9, this is my biggest
> concern! What do I change?

Absolutely *nothing*

It should pickup the new files that the *new* provision creates.

> What other needed changes have I overlooked?
>
> OR
>
> Do I (build (re-build) two servers) all over again?

Well, I think that you need to re-provision the domain.

Rowland

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> At this point, I am at the planning "what needs to be done" stage.
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> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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> On 2015-01-04 07:07, Rowland Penny wrote:
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>> On 04/01/15 12:16, Stefan Kania wrote:
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>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello everyone, I know that many people know not to use .local, but in the last weeks we had several People having problems using .local. So to all peopel starting implementing Samba 4 AD, read this: http://miketelahun.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/stop-using-local-as-the-top-level-domain-for-your-lan/ [1] So stop using .local as TLD. Maybe there should be a BIIIIIG not inside the wiki?
>> I updated the wiki yesterday in three places saying not to use .local, I believe that Marc has also updated the DNS page as well.
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>> Problem is, most people seem to ignore the wiki.
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>> Rowland
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>>> Stefan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAlSpLycACgkQ2JOGcNAHDTb0jACfX4Y2zDQuSfevMUvkgWRYcpdw hY8AoLxNJzOUPa0E3+BEo/zwJ88xk27J =e33p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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> Links:
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> http://miketelahun.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/stop-using-local-as-the-top-level-domain-for-your-lan/
> [2] http://www.donelsontrophy.com