[Samba] More on Group Policy Wiki page

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 2021-10-23 at 08:43 -0500, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
> 
> On 10/22/21 16:13, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On Fri, 2021-10-22 at 15:50 -0500, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
> > > These comments are with reference to
> > > 
> > >    https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Group_Policy
> > > 
> > > This boxed comment:
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > If you run the command without specifying which DC to use with '-
> > > H',
> > > the
> > > ADMX templates may be installed on another DC.
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > which refers to `samba-tool gpo admxload -UAdministrator`
> > > 
> > > seems muddled. Wouldn't the samba-tool you're running be
> > > associated
> > > with
> > > a specific DC; i.e. the host which samba-tool is installed on, in
> > > which
> > > case omission of the -H flag should always default to the local
> > > DC?
> > > How
> > > would it randomly write things to a remote URL?
> > 
> > Believe me it does, I ran the command three times on a DC before I
> > realised why the admx files were not in the DC's sysvol. The
> > command
> > ran and finished without any errors, but I couldn't find the admx
> > files
> > on the DC I ran the command on. I finally found them on my other
> > DC, I
> > had to specify the DC with -H to ensure they were placed on the DC
> > I
> > ran the command on.
> > 
> 
> OK, but the documentation is a but unclear, simply stating I need to
> use 
> the "URL" of the target server.  Is this the FQDN, or can I just use
> the 
> hostname?

Both will probably work. I used the FQDN.


>   The relevant question is how is this URL being resolved?

Sorry, but I didn't write the code and I haven't read it in depth, so I
do not know how the URL is resolved, except that it is usually done on
a round-robin basis.

> 
> And never mind how horrible this design is.  The exclusion of -H
> should 
> always indicate a local installation.  Good grief.

Did I mention that I didn't write this ;-)

Rowland