[Samba] wiki suggestions

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:57:54 +0200
Klaus Hartnegg via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is a collection of notes that I took while setting up an AD-DC.
> I do not want to edit the Wiki pages myself, without first asking
> experts whether my assumptions are correct.
> 
> Klaus
> 
> 
> ----
> 
> On page
>    Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller
> the section
>    Configuring Winbindd on a Samba AD DC
> is not necessary, because the same info is also included in the next 
> section.
> 

Removed.

> ----
> 
> The page
>     https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Libnss_winbind_Links
> recommends "uname -i"
> but that does not work in Debian because
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=655428
> (it does work in Ubuntu).
> 
> The page
>     https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Pam_winbind_Link
> recommends "uname -m"
> (works in Ubuntu as well).
> 
> Is there a reason why the first page not also suggests "uname -m"?
> Are there Linux distributions where "i" works but "m" does not?
>

Probably because it worked on their OS for whoever wrote it in the first
place ;-)

Anyway, fixed.

> ----
> 
> The page
>     https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configuring_Winbindd_on_a_Samba_AD_DC
> has an info-box regarding symbolic links to libnss_winbind.
> 
> The page
>     https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member
> has the same text, but as bullet point.
> 
> Eventhough the info-box is much bigger than the bullet point, I 
> recommend to make it a bullet point on both pages, because on my
> first tries I skipped the info-box, because it is just info, does not
> look like a required step.

Changed to bullet point.

> 
> ----
> 
> Is the symbolic link to libnss a required step for a AD-DC with no
> local users, used only as DC and fileserver? Somehow I still have not
> found out why sometimes RSAT works and sometimes not. Maybe libnss is
> required for RSAT and I sometimes forget this step.

Nobody has ever mentioned that before (well, I haven't heard it), but
you have to have the links to get Unix users & groups to work. If you
can prove that RSAT works better with the links, then I will alter the
wiki page.

Thanks for the updates, I just wish more people would report errors &
typo's

Rowland