[Samba] Two Samba 4 AD DC forest trust

[Lmloge]

Thank you Rowland.
I'm going to search in that direction.
Have a good week-end.
--
Léa


On 06/04/2018 5:44 PM, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 08:01:50 -0700 (MST)
> Lea Massiot via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My post is about having two Samba 4 AD DC at two different
>> geographical places and access resources bidirectionnaly through a
>> VPN as summarized in the schema below.
>>
>> -------------------------
>> Geographical site 1
>> -------------------------
>> - AD DC: Samba 4.1.4
>> - LAN_1 IPs: 192.168.1.0/24
>> - Machines DNS names: <hostname>.company.lan
>> - Some machines do not move from this site.
>> - Some machines are nomads (they can move to Geographical site 2).
>> - We can access some resources that are on LAN_2 machines through the
>> VPN. For example, NASs get synchronized throught the VPN.
>> -------------------------
>> |
>> |
>> |
>> |
>> VPN
>> |
>> |
>> |
>> |
>> -------------------------
>> Geographical site 2
>> -------------------------
>> - AD DC: Samba 4.8.0
>> - LAN_2 IPs: 192.168.2.0/24
>> - Machines DNS names: <hostname>.company.lan2
>> - Some machines do not move from this site.
>> - Some machines are nomads (they can move to Geographical site 1).
>> - We can access some resources that are on LAN_1 machines through the
>> VPN. For example, NASs get synchronized throught the VPN.
>> -------------------------
>>
>> On Geographical site 2, I am about to (*):
>>
>> /"Select a DNS domain for your AD forest.
>> The name will also be used as the AD Kerberos realm.
>> WARNING | Make sure that you provision the AD using a DNS domain that
>> will not need to be changed.
>> WARNING | Samba does not support renaming the AD DNS zone and Kerberos
>> realm."
>> /
>>
>> I am wondering which is the good way to go as far as these domain
>> names are concerned.
>> Also, I have read about AD forests but I couldn't find literature
>> explaining how to set up such a system with two Samba 4 AD DC.
>>
>> In
>> https://www.infoworld.com/article/2613171/networking/samba-4-review--no-substitute-for-active-directory----yet.html
>> dating back to 2013, one can read:
>> /"Support for cross-forest trusts and multiple domain controllers is
>> still to come. "/
>>
>> Can you help me?
>> Best regards.
>>
>> (*)
>> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sent from:
>> http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/Samba-General-f2403709.html
>>
> As far as I am aware, trusts still do not fully work yet. This isn't
> really a problem, mainly because you will probably be better off
> setting up a one domain forest and using subnets and sites. Do an
> internet search on 'active directory sites and services' for more info.
>
> Rowland
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