[Samba] Moving FSMO roles doesnt affect srv records in DNS ?.

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Sep 25 13:14:10 UTC 2020


On 25/09/2020 13:58, Peter Boos via samba wrote:
> The dnsutils package was missing, added it (typo in a script).
> Below is smb.conf, was it perhaps also the reason reversedns didn work
> I had not mentioned that earlier, it wasnt something critical we thought.
> And i wasnt sure either if thats normal for Samba
Yes, the reversezone is supposed to work.
> [global]
>
>    netbios name = DC1
>    realm = dom.mydomain.com
>    workgroup = dom
>    dns forwarder = 172.16.7.1
>    server role = active directory domain controller
>    idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes
>
> bind interfaces only = yes
> interfaces = 172.16.7.40
>
>    loglevel = 3
>
>    winbind enum users = yes
>    winbind enum groups = yes
You don't need those, they just slow things down in a large domain
>    wins support = yes
>    wins server = 172.16.7.40

Why do you need 'wins' in an AD domain ?

Rowland






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