[Samba] Why are Samba DCs not browsable?

[Viktor Trojanovic]

> On 04 Nov 2015, at 00:42, Linda W <samba at tlinx.org> wrote:
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> Rowland Penny wrote:
>>> On 29/10/15 09:19, Viktor Trojanovic wrote:
>>> In a book I'm reading on Samba4, the author explains that network browsing doesn't work for Samba AD DCs...
>> The book is partially correct, nmbd shouldn't be run on a DC, but there is a netbios server built into the samba binary but it doesn't contain the browsing code. If you are running a DC and there is a separate 'nmbd' running, then you really should stop it and stop it starting at boot.
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>   I thought this was "fixed"?  If a one has 1 machine designated as "the server"... do all things server (file serving, home-dir server, profile-server, win-authentication server, linux-authentication server, etc.), w/requirement of having single-signon give access to all permitted resources.
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>   This works reasonably well (for some value of reasonable) under Samba3.  Samba3 has been (or is being) retired because all functionality now exists in Samba4.
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>   Is this not the case? Joke used to be when multi-core 1st came out, that the new core would just be used for MS-related services, but it's been the case for a while that
> a separate machine was needed to support all the services.  But now that isn't enough?  Seems a bit peculiar to have to create multiple virtual server instances on the same machine just to get samba3 functionality to work in a samba4 domain? 
> I still have old machines on my network that I'll never be able to upgrade (usually multimedia related machines).  The server has multiple ethernet connections -- some for talking to the "outside world", some only for talking to low-security Win-compat appliances and/or old computers, and a few for highly-connected workstations that depend on the server being up to function (remote disks) that get dedicated lines (port-to-port).  But it's still only 1 server.  So how does one maintain browsing in such an environment -- its the only way many UPNP, DLNA and SSDP units function?
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Hi Linda,

This thread was only about Samba 4 as an Active Directory DC. It will still work the way you're used to if you're going to use Samba in "classic" mode, i.e. as you did with Samba 3.

Viktor