[Samba] Samba4 replication not working

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 19:04:32 +0200
Ronny Forberger <ronnyforberger at ronnyforberger.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 15.10.2016 um 18:39 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> > On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 18:17:18 +0200
> > Ronny Forberger <ronnyforberger at ronnyforberger.de> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Am 14.10.2016 um 16:00 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> >>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:45:39 +0200
> >>> Ronny Forberger <ronnyforberger at ronnyforberger.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Am 14.10.2016 um 15:29 schrieb Rowland Penny via samba:
> >>>>> On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 15:16:17 +0200
> >>>>> Ronny Forberger via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Am 14.10.2016 um 15:05 schrieb L.P.H. van Belle via samba:
> >>>>>>> Hai, 
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Can you download : 
> >>>>>>> http://downloads.van-belle.nl/samba4/samba-check-db-repl.sh 
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> the output of your script is
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> No Samba DC's Found with, you might have dns problems
> >>>>>>               exitting now...
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> How can I find out what is wrong with DNS?
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> Can you describe your setup to us ? how many DCs, where is Bind
> >>>>> running etc
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Rowland
> >>>>>
> >>>> Sure.
> >>>>
> >>>> I have 2 DCs, one running on macy (FreeBSD) and the other one
> >>>> running on nidy (Gentoo Linux). Bind is running on macy and 2
> >>>> other hosts in the same subnet. On the DC2, nidy, no bind is
> >>>> running, but pointing to the 3 dns servers in resolv.conf.
> >>>>
> >>> OK, can I suggest you run Bind on macy and nidy with identical
> >>> conf files. As for the other two hosts, either turn off Bind or
> >>> set them up as forwarders for the DCs, your clients should only
> >>> use the DCs for the domain DNS, anything outside the domain
> >>> should be forwarded to another DNS server outside the domain. If
> >>> you run Bind on anything other than a domain DC, you cannot use
> >>> dlz.
> >>>
> >>> Rowland
> >>>  
> >> Can't I just set up all the DNS records for samba on all 3 DNS
> >> servers and resolv against them?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Ronny
> >>
> > The DNS records are stored in AD, when a record is created on one
> > DC, it will be replicated to the other, how are you going to
> > replicate to the other three dns servers ???
> >
> > Rowland
> I was going to use the SAMBA_FLATFILE dns backend. Can't I use
> external DNS servers for this?
> 
> Best regards,
> Ronny
> >
> 

Please don't use flatfiles, it isn't supported anymore. It doesn't
replicate or enforce ACLs. Either use the internal DNS server or Bind9
with dlz.

Rowland