[Samba] Samba AD with external DNS server

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Fri Mar 20 07:34:13 MDT 2015


On 20/03/15 13:20, Harry Busch (bh at hs-furtwangen.de) wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> We have Samba4 (Sernet, Version4.1) on a Debian Wheezy server. There we try to
> use our Infoblox (It is our primary and secondary DNS server) as an external DNS
> server for the active directory on the samba4 server. It doesn’t matter which
> setup option (Samba_internal, bind_dlz, none) we use it doesn’t work.
>
> Harry

Yes, you are quite correct, it will not work. You need to set the Samba 
4 AD DC as the DNS server for the AD domain and then forward anything 
outside the AD domain to the infoblox device.

Rowland



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