[Samba] More on Group Policy Wiki page

[Rowland Penny]

On Mon, 2021-10-25 at 08:27 -0600, David Mulder via samba wrote:
> On 10/23/21 7:57 AM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:>
> > >    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.
> 
> Technically I *did* write this, but in my defense, it was mostly 
> copy/paste from another command ;)
> Here is the relevant code:
> 
>          if H and H.startswith('ldap://'):
> 
>              dc_hostname = H[7:]
> 
>              self.url = H
> 
>          else:
> 
>              dc_hostname = netcmd_finddc(self.lp, self.creds)
> 
>              self.url = dc_url(self.lp, self.creds, dc=dc_hostname)
> 
> 
> Which says, if -H is specified (and it is an ldap url), then use it. 
> Otherwise, pick a DC (in round robin fashion, as Rowland pointed out)
> in 
> the domain your are joined to. Technically this should work
> regardless, 
> as the SYSVOL will replicate the admx templates.

Only if you do this manually, it will not happen automatically.

Rowland