[Samba] Samba4 AD cannot see machines in windows browser

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 12:16:56 -0700
Alberto Moreno via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm continuing learning samba4.
> 
> I had add some machines to the domain, windows 10 Pro.
> 
> But I open windows browser and don't see my domain and my machines.
> 
> Is normal with samba4?

Depending on how you set up Samba, yes and no.

> 
> My smb.conf
> 
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         netbios name = MBXDC1
>         realm = MBX.LOCAL
>         server role = active directory domain controller
>         server services = s3fs, rpc, nbt, wrepl, ldap, cldap, kdc,
> drepl, winbindd, ntp_signd, kcc, dnsupdate
>         workgroup = MBX
>         idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes
>         log level = 5
> 
> [netlogon]
>         path = /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol/mbx.local/scripts
>         read only = No
> 
> [sysvol]
>         path = /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol
>         read only = No

Ah, it is an AD DC, so the answer is definitely yes, there is no
browsing with a Samba AD DC.

> 
> Other thing, I try to increase my log level, but samba won't accept,
> it continue with log level = 2.

Did you restart Samba after making the change ?

> 
> My windows machines had the computer browser service off and fw off.

How do you expect to use a browser service that is turned off ?
Not that it will help if you do turn it on.

> 
> Samba version 4.7.8 CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)

How did you provision an AD DC using Centos packages, I thought you
still couldn't use them for a DC.

Rowland