[Samba] Samba 4.1 gentent, ls, no display domain user name on Primary ACDC but wbinfo -u yes

[Rowland Penny]

On 23/03/15 11:42, Jhon P wrote:
> Thanks for the clarification.
>
> They are around 80 clients.
> All windows 7 and Xp pro.
>
> One member server linux  with Debian 7 for testing the future file 
> server. All on this works fine.
>
> Other servers that are not in the domain
>
> Thanks.
> > Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:26:08 +0000
> > From: rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 4.1 gentent, ls, no display domain user 
> name on Primary ACDC but wbinfo -u yes
> >
> > On 23/03/15 00:55, Jhon P wrote:
> > > It will be necessary to join this PDC to the domain?
> >
> > Firstly, it is a 'DC' not a 'PDC', there really is no concept of a
> > Primary Domain Controller in active directory, other than one of the
> > FSMO roles. These FSMO roles are the only differences between DCs ,
> > other than this, all DCs are the same (or should)
> >
> > You do not join a DC to the domain unless it is a second (or 
> subsequent)
> > DC, when you provision a DC or classicupgrade a PDC, it is 
> automatically
> > joined to the domain.
> >
> > > I did this once and it was not me well and I had to restore the 
> backup.
> > >
> > > The samba documentation does not say anything of this.
> > > Remember this isnt a member server this is the PDC, on samba ACDC doc
> > > say this:
> > >
> > > "We /*_do not recommend_* using the Domain Controller as a file
> > > Server. This is due to issues with the winbind internal to the Domain
> > > Controller./"
> > >
> > > But I also need to use it because I had no other server to use as a
> > > file server.
> >
> > It is not recommended, but you can do it, there are plenty of people 
> who
> > post on here who do use a DC as a fileserver.
> >
> > Just how many clients do you have and what sort ?
> >
> > Rowland
> >
> > >
> > > If there is no chance you do not want to waste time with this.
> > >
> > > Many thank you very much.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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What is the DC (you may have said, but if you have, sorry I have forgotten)

Rowland