[Samba] AD DC as KVM guest on file server host?

Miguel medalha medalist at sapo.pt
Thu Dec 29 14:25:07 UTC 2016


> One problem I see is that the client relies on a VM that might not be up 
> when Samba on the client boots. If there are other services running on the 
> client, that use winbind for authentication or for building a list of users, 
> they might fail as well. Additionally the client uses the DCs DNS, so services might fail during start up if the DNS is not up.

As I said on my original post, I have two DCs in this setup. Only one of them would be migrated to a VM. The one having the FSMO role would still be a physical machine. Do you still see a potential problem here?





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