[Samba] Samba4 DC is not visible in network neighborhood

[Rowland Penny]

On 21/11/15 18:33, Andrey Repin wrote:
> Greetings, Viktor Trojanovic!
>
>>> Is there at last a solution? I've only found questions, in the list, and on
>>> the network.
>>>
>>> The issue is that DC built on Samba4 does not report to network browsers
>>> neither it is participating in election to become browser itself.
>>> Consequently, it is not visible in the neighborhood neither on Windows, nor on
>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> I've managed to force a second Linux host (member server) become a local
>>> browser. At least, I can see it and other hosts now. But not the DC itself.
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Andrey,
>> In that case you did exactly what you were supposed to do. :)
>> Browsing is turned off for the DC by design, and this will not change.
>> Use member servers to implement browsing.
> And how am I supposed to address the DC then?
> For all my attempts, I've had to conclude that member servers can't be
> configured to manage shares with native ACL's. No matter what I do, I always
> get "access denied" on a member server when trying to setup share permissions
> on a member server using Windows tools.
> So far, the only solution was to move ACL-sensitive services to the DC.
> But this is really not a solution. Only a workaround.
>
>

What do you mean 'native ACLs' ?
you should be able to manage access to a share on a domain member from a 
windows machine, see this page on the wiki: 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Shares_with_Windows_ACLs

If you follow the various pages on the wiki, you should be able make it 
work, if you cannot, you are doing something wrong.

Rowland