[Samba] GPO redirected folders reg path issue

Philippe LeCavalier support at plecavalier.com
Fri Feb 28 19:00:21 UTC 2020


Has anyone experienced what I posted in my latest response?

Thanks, Phil


On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 10:42 AM Philippe LeCavalier <
support at plecavalier.com> wrote:

> 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
> server.local.domain.tld canonical name = server.local.domain.tld.
> 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
> server.local.domain.tld canonical name = server.local.domain.tld.
> 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
> server.local.domain.tld canonical name = server.local.domain.tld.
> 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
> server.local.domain.tld canonical name = server.local.domain.tld.
> 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
> server.local.domain.tld canonical name = server.local.domain.tld.
> 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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> 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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> 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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>


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