[Samba] Samba 4.8 RODC not working

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 10:40:28 +0200 (CEST)
Gaetan SLONGO <gslongo at it-optics.com> wrote:

> Hi Louis, Hi Rowland, 
> 
> 
> I will respond to both in this mail. 
> 
> 
> Yes winbind is installed : 
> 
> 
> 
> [root at dmzrodc ~]# which winbindd 
> /usr/sbin/winbindd 
> [root at dmzrodc ~]# rpm -qa |grep winbind 
> sernet-samba-winbind-4.8.2-10.el7.x86_64 
> 

What does '/usr/sbin/winbindd -V' produce ?

> 
> I know about *mbd processes. so strange.. This is why I'm posting
> here :-)

I have never used an RODC, but would image you need both smbd &
winbindd to run
 
> 
> 
> I joined the RODC following the procedure available on the wiki page
> https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Join_a_domain_as_a_RODC : 
> 
> 
> samba-tool domain join ads.MYDOMAIN.be RODC -U
> MYDOMAIN\\Administrator --dns-backend=SAMBA_INTERNAL 
> 
> 
> This is a Samba AD domain. But other DC are 4.7.7. Cannot upgrade to
> 4.8 but I don't think this is the issue. I had exactly same issue
> with 4.6 and 4.7 versions where a dev told me to wait for next
> release to get better RODC support. This did not solved the issue and
> it becomes "urgent" to have this RODC :-( 
> 

As Louis as said, if it is that urgent, you may have to ask Sernet for
help, perhaps Volker might care to comment on this problem.

Rowland