[Samba] Samba AD DC, DHCP & Address Assignments

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 09/08/2015 10:21 AM, Jim Seymour wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 09:19:22 -0400
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/08/2015 09:04 AM, Jim Seymour wrote:
>>
> [snip]
>>> And the zone file on deepthought might read something like...
>>>
>>>        somepc    IN    A    192.168.0.10
> [snip]
>>> Problem with the AD DC is that it lives in a sub-domain,
>>> "addc.example.com", and the zone for that sub-domain is a dlz. So...
>>> how do I set/assign client PCs' IP addresses?
>> See my recent thoughts on this.
> Which ones?  You've had a lot of thoughts, recently :)
>
>> With static IP address mapping in
>> DHCP, you can extend it to static zone files.
> [snip]
>
> Er... what?
>
> All I want to do is add (and remove) forward and reverse records to the
> DLZ zones in which the AD DC and its clients reside.
>
> I think I found it (dunno why I did not, in the first place):
>
>      https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/DNS_Administration
>
> So, for the example I gave, above:
>
>      samba-tool dns add deepthought.addc.example.com addc.example.com
>       somepc A 192.168.0.10
>
> and...
>
>      samba-tool dns add deepthought.addc.example.com
>        0.168.192.in-addr.arpa 10 PTR somepc.addc.example.com
>
> (N.B.: "deepthought.example.com" will also work, for the first
> parameter to the "add"s, above, in my case, as deepthought.example.com
> and deepthought.addc.example.com are the same thing, in my case.)

Oops.  I missed that you had missed this!  When you said flat zone file, 
I took you literally to mean text-style dns zone files.  Not use 
samba-tool to maintain the ldap entries used for dlz.