[Samba] Multi tenancy and/or Hosted AD like solution

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 03:39:02PM +0200, D Grealish wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been doing some research and testing into implementing SAMBA 4 as a
> AD/DC role for offering "AD as a service" to various small companies, I've
> been testing SAMBA out in various different configurations and wondering if
> SAMBA in AD/DC role if it's possible to segment in such a way
> 
> some requirements:
>  - Windows 10 support, e.g SMB3
>  - AD tree segmentation so that one customer doesn't see a another customer
> AD tree, (users, computer, shares, etc..)
>  - Single or multi domain (however I understand multi trust domains isn't
> supported yet)
> 
> some ideas:
> - separate SAMBA instance for each customer,
> - use docker to host each SAMBA instance
> - single SAMBA instance running some splittree/forest
> 
> Anyone attempt something before?

Containerizations/VM's are the way to go here.