[Samba] Samba Active Directory Domain Controller

[lingpanda101]

On 5/8/2017 12:57 PM, Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba wrote:
> On 2017-05-08 11:47, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 08 May 2017 11:36:17 -0500
>> Bob of Donelson Trophy via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 2017-05-08 10:39, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 8 May 2017 16:50:55 +0200
>> "L.P.H. van Belle via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> It seems that you cannot create a new /etc/resolv.conf ..
>> Did you remove resolvconf with apt-get remove --purge resolvconf?
>> That should have restored the static resolv.conf back.
>> Well no, I didn't, but then again this was on Centos 7.3, it wasn't
>> anything to do with resolvconf, I couldn't create any new file
>> in /etc.
>>
>> I just wanted to test something so, more out of desperation than
>> anything, I tried the 'mkdir /etc1' trick and it worked.
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>> You aamy or may not remember that I use Ubuntu server for my Samba
>> DC's.
>>
>> Not much time but, I remember that users need to add "dns-nameservers"
>> and "dns-search" (for local domain) parameters to the
>> /etc/network/interfaces file and that populates the /etc/resolv.conf
>> file properly. Tricky but documented somewhere on Ubuntu.
>>
>> (Yes, I know, not the Debian way but rather the Ubuntu way of doing
>> this.)
> Yes, but you should be able to at least add something
> to /etc/resolv.conf, even if it will be overwritten at a later point. I
> couldn't even do this on Centos 7.3. I spent more time getting
> resolv.conf to work the way I wanted it to, than doing what I wanted
> to test ;-)
>
> Rowland
>
> Yes, add it to the /etc/network/interfaces and Ubuntu does the rest.
>
> Once I discovered this worked, it went much easier and worked like a
> charm, as they say . . however, they are.
>
I believe Rowland is speaking specifically to CentOS 7.3 and not Ubuntu. 
CentOS requires network config changes in

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-"Your Interface"

I can't recall where in CentOS to make changes to resolv.conf.

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James