[Samba] Congratulations!

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 6 May 2018 18:48:40 +0200
Davy Defaud via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> > Thanks very much for making AD trusts /really/ usable at last in
> > 4.8. For my use case just allowing trusted groups to access file
> > shares with correct permissions is good enough for now. Child
> > domains would be nice too ;-)
> 
> Dear Samba developers,
> 
> I’m also more interested by child domains rather than sites. I know
> that it is not supported yet, but I wonder if SUBDOMAIN join option of
> samba-tool is supposed to be for creating a child domain.
> 
> There’s no documentation entries to explain how it is supposed to
> work, but I can see the option in the samba-tool usage:
> 
> > Usage: samba-tool domain join <dnsdomain> [DC|RODC|MEMBER|SUBDOMAIN]
> > [options]
> and --parent-domain=PARENT_DOMAIN
> 
> Any hint?
> 

Yes, they don't work (yet). In fact, up until recently, the only thing
that worked was 'DC'

Rowland