[Samba] Dynamic DNS for Samba domain joined hosts
Jon Gerdes
gerdesj at blueloop.net
Wed Jul 1 14:32:16 UTC 2020
On Wed, 2020-07-01 at 08:16 +0100, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 30/06/2020 23:54, Jon Gerdes via samba wrote:
> > Dear all
> >
> > I have a Ubuntu 18.04 box with Samba 4.7.6+dfsg~ubuntu-0ubuntu2.16 on it. Until recently I only used winbind on it
> > to
> > enable GSSAPI for ssh and Apache. The machine is domain joined to a 2016 based set of AD DCs.
> >
> > I have added a IPv6 static address to the box and want to update DNS dynamically.
> >
> > I installed all of Samba to get "samba_dnsupdate". Prior to this I only needed winbind and a few Kerberos related
> > things. Whenever I run samba_dnsupdate I get the error:
> >
> > "No such file or directory: '/var/lib/samba/private/dns_update_list"
> >
> > I can't work out what creates that file. The directory exists. I've tried starting smbd and nmbd and restarting
> > winbind.
> > Normally I only run winbind on this box.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jon
>
> you appear to be trying to run something only meant for a Samba AD DC on
> a Unix domain member, this will not work.
>
> I think you are trying to get your Unix dhcp clients to update their dns
> records in AD, just like the windows clients do, not sure you can get
> this to work.
>
> Rowland
>
OK I'll answer my own question:
# net ads dns register
Successfully registered hostname with DNS
... and all addresses appear in DNS
Cheers
Jon
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