[Samba] Secondary DC as fileserver within VirtualBox

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Tue May 12 02:56:25 MDT 2015


On 12/05/15 09:49, Daniel Müller wrote:
> Hello,
> So what?-- my secondary DC has to be virtual and has to be able to do
> storage!
> But?-- my secondary DC has to be virtual and has to be able to do storage
> This could only be solved  by a third machine  serving the storage!
> So why  not a samba4 fileserver with enough storage? And no second DC!
>
>
> Greetings
> Daniel
>
>
>
> EDV Daniel Müller
>
> Leitung EDV
> Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus
> Paul-Lechler-Str. 24
> 72076 Tübingen
> Tel.: 07071/206-463, Fax: 07071/206-499
> eMail: mueller at tropenklinik.de
> Internet: www.tropenklinik.de
>
>
>
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> Von: samba-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Im
> Auftrag von bogdan_bartos
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 12. Mai 2015 05:03
> An: samba at lists.samba.org
> Betreff: [Samba] Secondary DC as fileserver within VirtualBox
>
> Hi,
>
> I setup a secondary DC to server as a fileserver for testing purposes. The
> DC (DCBACKUP) in question runs on top of a Fedora 21 x64 with VirtualBox.
> The DC OS also runs Fedora 21 x64.
>
> The smb.conf follows:
> [global]
> 	workgroup = BPDNET
> 	realm = ad.blackpenguin.org
> 	netbios name = DCBACKUP
> 	server role = active directory domain controller
> 	vfs objects = acl_xattr
> 	map acl inherit = Yes
> 	store dos attributes = Yes
> [netlogon]
> 	path = /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol/ad.blackpenguin.org/scripts
> 	read only = No
> [sysvol]
> 	path = /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol
> 	read only = No
> [images]
>      path = /home/data/images
>      read only = No
>
> The filesystem on the DC is set with ACLs:
> /dev/mapper/fedora--server-home /home                   ext4
> user_xattr,acl,barrier=1        1 1
>
> The /home/data folder is a machine shared folder via VirtualBox. The
> underlying Linux OS does not have ACLs enabled. I noticed that I cannot
> change any rights on any folder created under /home/data. Has anyone tried
> anything similar to this? I'm only concerned about the share security.
>
> The reason to implement this is to try the setup. My primary domain
> controller works just perfectly - it is a physical machine, but my secondary
> DC has to be virtual and has to be able to do storage. my secondary DC has
> to be virtual and has to be able to do storage.
>
>
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Or better still,

First machine, AD DC
second machine as member server with the second DC in VM

Rowland




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