[Samba] domain with a single dc

Kees van Vloten keesvanvloten at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 09:01:13 UTC 2023


Op 03-08-2023 om 10:55 schreef Luis Peromarta via samba:
> For reliability / resiliency purposes 1 DC is a poor idea.
No DNS and no user / group resolving during an upgrade of your DC will 
lead to a disaster...
>
> The samba team does not recommend using a DC as a fileserver.

The DC uses another code base (source4) than the fileserver (source3). 
The DC can server sysvol and netlogon but is not suitable for more 
advanced fileserving.

- Kees

>
> LP
> On 3 Aug 2023 at 10:52 +0200, Admin\(IT\) <admin at marche.be>, wrote:
>> I would like to set up an infra samba 4 with only 1DC
> Bad idea.
>> which will also be
>> used as a file server.
> Very bad idea.



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