[Samba] Syncing Sysvol

Jonathon Reinhart jonathon.reinhart at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 13:16:40 UTC 2019


On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 9:11 AM Rowland penny via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> On 16/07/2019 14:02, Jonathon Reinhart wrote:
> > Rowland,
> >
> > You could go another step further and run that with "notify" to
> > monitor for changes, instead of having to run it in a cron job. In my
> > experience, "notify" works using smbclient, but not so with
> > libsmbclient.
> Problem is, the script is written to be run on DC's that do not hold the
> PDC Emulator FSMO role, so it would have to be re-written.

Why does the PDC emulator role matter? All non-PDC-emulators could
simply watch for changes on the PDC Emulator, right? Am I missing
something?

> >
> > Another nice benefit of using smbclient + 'samba-tool ntacl
> > sysvolreset' over rsync is that you don't need worry about the
> > built-in user/group ID mappings, as documented here:
> > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Samba_DC_to_an_Existing_Active_Directory#Built-in_User_.26_Group_ID_Mappings
>
> Yes, I did consider this.
>
> Rowland
>
>
>
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