[Samba] Samba 4.5.3 on HP UX IA64 : smbclient - tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 10:47:19 +0530
Silambarasan Madhappan <silambarasan19 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rowland,
> 
> On HP-UX , only ‘Posix ACL’s’ are supported. So, file sharing doesn’t
> seem to be working on ADDC as it supports only Windows ACL’s as per
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_a_Share_Using_POSIX_ACLs
> 
> Also, as per below link, it is not recommended to use ADDC as file
> sharing service
> 
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller#Using_the_Domain_Controller_as_a_File_Server
> 
> 
> 
> So, we will not be using ADDC as file server.
> 
> 
> 
> Can you please let us know if there is any other impact due to not
> supporting Windows/Extended ACL’s.
> 

Yes, in two words 'sysvol' and 'GPO'

So, if you cannot do windows ACL's, you cannot do an AD DC.

Rowland