[Samba] Fwd: Good installation documentation on samba4?

Léon van der Kaap leonkaap at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 20:28:09 UTC 2016


>The standard four line krb5.conf that is generated during provisioning and
listed on the wiki page about setting up an AD >DC works fine for me.

And that's great, but it has never worked for me and it is very
demoralizing to follow the instructions and not get a result.


> Regarding the troubleshooting page, it is *far* from complete. At the very
> least, the documentation should at a check for a succesful 'kinit' command
> to see if the system is going to work.
>

>Once again, these steps are listed on the main wiki page about creating an
AD DC.  https://wiki.samba.org/index.
<https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_a_Samba_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller#Testing_Kerberos>
> php/Setup_a_Samba_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller#Testing_Kerberos
<https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setup_a_Samba_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller#Testing_Kerberos>

I misspoke on that one. Indeed, the information is there but when I tried
it I was greeted with a washlist of errors and no idea how to solve it. At
that point I was out of luck(and I was not the only one as I have found
others on the internet with the same issue).



>
> Maybe I sound a bit angry, but I severely dislike documentation that leaves
> you with an unfinished installation. Compare the monstrously sized Samba
> 3.5 with Samba 4 kind of illustrates the point that not all bases are
> covered which is a shame to me.
>

> I setup my Samba Active Directory Domain with multiple DCs at multiple
remote sites connected via VPN with both
> Linux and Windows clients using the documentation and found it quite
complete and clear.

And that's great assuming it works that is. Yet, if following the
instructions actually worked, I wouldn't be here posting my frustrations.


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