[Samba] Samba4 AD/DC and Virtual Machines?

[mathias dufresne]

I did not read everything but, in short, here we have Samba AD DC (only) on
VM, clients on VM and on physical machines.

2016-08-10 4:36 GMT+02:00 Michael A Weber via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>:

>
> > On Aug 9, 2016, at 9:14 PM, Mark Foley via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > Can Samba4 be used for AD/DC with virtual machines? For example, I have
> a Ubuntu domain member
> > and it currently does AD authentication for users.  I would like to run
> this computer as a VM
> > also hosting Windows 7, which I would also like the Windows 7 user(s) to
> AD authenticate.
> >
> > One problem I foresee is joining the computer to the domain. I imagine
> there is only one IP
> > address. If I join the WIN7 VM, I expect I could not use the same
> computer name as the Ubuntu
> > hostname.
> >
> > I see other issues with ports, etc.
> >
> > Is this doable? Has anyone done this?
> >
> > THX --Mark
> >
> >
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>
> Mark—
>
> If I’m understanding you correctly, you want to move your Samba AD/DC to a
> virtual machine, and you also have a virtual machine with Windows 7 on it,
> and these will both be on the same virtual host.
>
> If this is correct, then yes, you can definitely do it.  Each virtual
> machine will have a network adapter and it will, depending upon how you
> have it configured, get (or have) its own IP address.  For example, I used
> my Macbook Pro as a virtual machine host and had another Mac OS VM, two
> CentOS VMs, and a Windows 10 VM, all communicating and bridged to my
> machine’s adapter, therefore all accessing the rest of my LAN.
>
> If my understanding is correct, you can even setup an additional host-only
> network and second ethernet adapters in each VM so that network traffic
> only goes between those two VMs, but that’s not really needed since you
> still need to get to the Windows 7 VM from outside the host.
>
> If I misunderstood and you’d like to run the Samba VM on a Windows 7 host,
> AND have users of that host authenticate against the AD, that would be a
> small problem unless you have the VM autostart and you give it enough time
> to boot up completely before your users attempt to authenticate.
>
> There are many options, and you can definitely accomplish what you want.
>
> Mike
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