[Samba] On to samba-tools tools - Re: samba_dlz: Failed to connect

[Rowland Penny]

On 03/09/15 20:48, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> On 09/03/2015 02:51 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>> On 03/09/15 19:42, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>> On 09/03/2015 02:33 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>> On 03/09/15 19:21, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>>>> On 09/03/2015 02:17 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>>>> On 03/09/15 19:05, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>>>>>> On 09/03/2015 01:59 PM, Sketch wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Rowland Penny wrote:
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>>>>>>>>>  What are the permissions on /var/lib/samba/private/dns ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also don't forget the permissions on /var/lib/samba/private
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> If you're using sernet's packages, you'll have to chgrp it to 
>>>>>>>> to named or give it o+x perms.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> chown root:named /var/lib/samba/private
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wow that was it!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> DLZ is up and running.  Lots more to get right in the bind 
>>>>>>> config....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Is there a web app to front end samba-tools for maintaining at 
>>>>>>> least the dns portion?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, it is called RSAT and runs on windows :-D
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Very funny.  THAT IS NOT a web app front end to samba-tools. What 
>>>>> about webmin?  But have to see if it is build specific...
>>>>>
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>>>> As far as I know RSAT is the only option at the moment, Webmin 
>>>> doesn't seem to know anything about dlz, but then again Samba 4 AD 
>>>> has been out nearly 3 years now and Webmin still doesn't work with it.
>>>
>>> Well does Webmin know about ldap and can update the ldap directly?
>>>
>>> Grumble.
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>> It is no good grumbling on here, you could try grumbling at Webmin :-)
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>> Also, using ldap is not as simple as that, try reading dns.py, it is 
>> in /usr/share/pyshared/samba/netcmd on debian
>> I know it is written in python and uses ldb, but it might help you to 
>> understand just how difficult it is to work with dns & samba.
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> My first item is to add the A and CNAME records for some of the 
> statically addressed systems in my home.htt domain.

Try 'samba-tool dns add --help'
The first line it prints is this:

Usage: samba-tool dns add <server> <zone> <name> 
<A|AAAA|PTR|CNAME|NS|MX|SRV|TXT> <data>

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> For 2 of them I COULD use dhcp with MAC - IP address mapping. Have you 
> used that and gotten the A record added?  That probably won't handle 
> the CNAME (and MX) though.
>

Never tried it, so cannot comment :-)

Rowland