[Samba] GPO redirected folders reg path issue

[Philippe LeCavalier]

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:20 AM Philippe LeCavalier <
support at plecavalier.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:09 AM Philippe LeCavalier <
> support at plecavalier.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 10:56 AM L.P.H. van Belle via samba <
>> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> A setup on howto improve your samba network and simplify it.
>>> This is how i setup, sure looks dificult but its all about DNS setup and
>>> what you add to it.
>>>
>>> For AD-DC.s  ( AD, TIME, NS, LDAP )
>>> Hostname.FQDN.TLD : max 63chars, incl the .'s  allowed chars: a-Z 0-9 -
>>>
>>> Hostname : sam-dc1.internal.domain.tld
>>> IP         : what you need/want. ( example 192.168.1.11 )
>>> PTR        : 11.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa
>>> CNAME    : dc1 ns1 ldap1 ntp1
>>>
>>> Hostname : sam-dc2.internal.domain.tld
>>> IP         : what you need/want. ( example 192.168.1.12 )
>>> PTR        : 12.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa
>>> CNAME    : dc1 ns2 ldap2 ntp2
>>>
>>> For a MEMBER.
>>> Hostname.FQDN.TLD : max 254chars, incl the .'s  allowed chars: a-Z 0-9 -
>>> Hostname : sam-mem1.internal.domain.tld
>>> IP         : what you need/want. ( example 192.168.1.21 )
>>> PTR        : 21.0.168.192.in-addr.arpa
>>> CNAME    : fs1 (fileserver1)
>>> But also and this is just how may servers you setup.
>>> Think in web1 proxy1 cluster1  etc etc. these are always the ALIASES.
>>> And you can also say thing like this.
>>>
>>
>> Started implementing this today in one site. I first started looking at
>> it using samba-tool with guidance from the wiki[1] and could easily see the
>> results nor could I easily add the records so I reverted to RSAT on a
>> desktop. I quickly noticed despite my thought of having added some of these
>> records that I solely relied on the samba-tool provisioning and had in
>> fact, not added any CNAME or PTR records as suggested above. So I proceeded
>> to add them. Based on the record examples provided above and the DNS
>> Management MMC snap-in tool I mistakenly omitted the FQDN in the data part
>> of both the CNAME and PTR records so when I applied the entries just about
>> everything stopped working; no logins no shares...etc. When I queried the
>> dns backend in samba I noticed the records I added were missing the "data"
>> part and quickly added my hostname.domain.tld to each and everything
>> started working again. -just wanted to add the story in case it helps
>> anyone following along. Personally, I'm always trying to steer away from
>> RSAT and administering anything from windows as a whole and would much
>> rather use samba-tool so I'm not reliant on a desktop but hey,,, it is a
>> windows based network afterall.
>>
>> So now that the dust has settled (the whole ordeal was less than 15
>> minutes so no big deal) I'm not seeing anything spectacularly different but
>> it will be interesting to see if I ever the issue stated in the original
>> msg of this thread.
>>
>
> I should also add that despite using the provisioning tool, my zone files
> (based on what I saw in the dns MMC) did not have a reverse record at all.
>
The following may be totally unrelated to the changes made above so if it
is preferred I can post this seperately....

This doesn't seem normal to me.

# nslookup server.local.domain.tld
Server: 192.168.1.11
Address: 192.168.1.11#53

Name: server.local.domain.tld
Address: 192.168.1.11
server.local.domain.tld canonical name = server.local.domain.tld.
Name: server.local.domain.tld
Address: 192.168.1.11
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Name: server.local.domain.tld
Address: 192.168.1.11
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Name: server.local.domain.tld
Address: 192.168.1.11
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