[Samba] Samba4 Join a domain as a DC

[Denis Cardon]

Hi Roland,

> Hi, Active directory lives on DNS, if no DNS there is no Active Directory.

about this one, while the first part is very true, I'd say that the 
second part is only 99.99% correct :-)

Indeed I once had to migrate a win2k-AD domain to samba4-AD with 30 
workstations where the DC's DNS service was simply disabled, yeah 
_disabled_, and there where no other DC in the domain.

All the workstation found the AD through NetBIOS/WINS and had a external 
bind9 for internet browsing. And actually it was working... perhaps not 
as it was intended to, but it was working. I don't remember if the DC 
was still in mixed mode or not though.

Anyway, I totally agree with you that proper DNS configuration is 
paramout to have a well running AD domain!

Cheers,

Denis

>
> Best plan would be to run DNS on all DCs, this way if there is a problem
> with one DC, you still have DNS. You should point each DC at another DC,
> then have its own address to fall back on i.e. if the ipaddress of DC1
> is 192.168.0.2 and the ipaddress of DC2 is 192.168.0.3, then the
> /etc/resolv.conf on DC1 would be:
>
> search example.com
> nameserver 192.168.0.3
> nameserver 192.168.0.2
>
> and on DC2:
>
>   search example.com
> nameserver 192.168.0.2
> nameserver 192.168.0.3
>
> Rowland
>

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