[Samba] dns/ad domain provisioning and naming

[L.P.H. van Belle]

if this is in smb.conf

>[global]
>    workgroup = LOCAL
>    realm = local.thisismycompany.com 
then you have a problem.

realm needs to be in CAPS

Louis


>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>Van: peter at serbe.ch [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] 
>Namens Peter Serbe
>Verzonden: donderdag 22 januari 2015 10:29
>Aan: samba at lists.samba.org; jeff at henze.us
>Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] dns/ad domain provisioning and naming
>
>
>
>Jeff Henze schrieb am 22.01.2015 02:02:
>
>> 1) I would like my users to log in to workstations with
>> flast at thisismycompany.com and/or timc\flast. 
>
>If the domain is set up as 
>
>[global]
>    workgroup = LOCAL
>    realm = local.thisismycompany.com
>
>then the domain users would log in as local\flast. 
>I am not sure, whether LOCAL makes up a good domain name... 
>
>
>
>> 2) I'm not yet trusting my configuration skills in Bind, so 
>I'd like to use
>> samba_internal as the DNS backend for now. 
>
>Bind is very cool, for isolating the internal DNS from the 
>rest of the world. No need to worry for Bind running on the 
>DC. If You got a slave DNS, You have to disable forwarders 
>for Your internal zone, i.e.:
>
>zone "local.thisismycompany.com" {
>        type slave;
>        masters { *your DCs go here* };
>        file "/etc/bind/namedb/bak.local.thisismycompany.com";
>        forwarders{};
>};
>
>
>I always liked Bind... :-)
>HTH & Best regards
>
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