[Samba] File server questions

Flávio Silveira fggs at terra.com.br
Mon Sep 11 13:40:50 UTC 2017



On 30/08/2017 14:36, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:12:09 -0300
> Flávio Silveira via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 30/08/2017 13:16, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:48:09 -0300
>>> Flávio Silveira via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Louis
>>>>
>>>> On 30/08/2017 10:28, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
>>>>> Hai,
>>>> First I want to thank you for maintaining a debian repo with
>>>> updated packages, made my life much easier!
>>>>
>>>>> If you have a small network, yes, a DC only is not recommended,
>>>>> but if configured correcly it works fine. I see you have only one
>>>>> linux server, so i can assum only windows clients. Then, i say
>>>>> yes, setup an AD DC as fileserver.
>>>> Do you have any pointers on which wiki tutorial I should follow to
>>>> get things started?
>>>>
>>> Follow the DC wiki page:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller
>>>
>>> There is even a section: Using the Domain Controller as a File
>>> Server
>>>
>>> This will send you to:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member
>>>
>>> Where you will need to read this section:
>>>
>>> Configuring the Name Service Switch
>>>
>>> Which will refer you to:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Libnss_winbind_Links
>>>
>>> This will tell you how to set up the libnns_winbind links
>>>
>>> Having said all that, you can do it all by installing
>>>
>>> samba attr winbind libpam-winbind libpam-krb5 libnss-winbind
>>> krb5-config krb5-user ntp dnsutils ldb-tools
>>>
>>> set up ntp as per the wiki:
>>>
>>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Time_Synchronisation
>>>
>>> provision the domain, run 'pam-auth-update' ensure everything is
>>> checked and tab to <OK> and press enter, now start 'samba'
>>>
>>> It should just work.
>>>
>>> Rowland
>>>
>> I can't thank you enough for this, great walk through!
> No problem.
>
>> I will probably have more questions during the setup, but I have only
>> one left for now:
> Any questions, just ask, the only stupid question is the one you don't
> ask ;-)
>
>> Will it create any issues if I do it within the current network or do
>> you recommend doing in network lab?
>>
> I would do a test run first, that way, if there are any questions,
> you can ask them and errors wont affect anything.
>
> There is just one thing I missed, you will probably want homedirs for
> the users, to get them created automatically the first time a user
> connects, you will need to add this line to /etc/pam.d/common-session
>
> session    required   pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022
>
> Rowland
>
>
>

As suggested I am reading 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller 
and https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Active_Directory_Naming_FAQ

As Active Directory Naming seem very important, I want to do it right.

My company domain is tecnopon.com.br but it is not hosted by me, it is 
hosted by a hosting company.

After reading Active Directory Naming FAQ, if I understand what I have 
read, I can use ad.tecnopon.com.br and I won't need to change any DNS 
zone files as it will only be used internally. Am I correct?

Regards,
   Flavio Silveira




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