[Samba] Upgrading from Samba 4.8.2 to 4.15.5

[Rowland Penny]

On 30/01/2023 13:29, Michael Tokarev via samba wrote:
> 30.01.2023 06:14, Mark Foley via samba пишет:
> [,,]
>> 2. Let's say I get the new DC up and joined (I'll name it DC1), and I 
>> transfer FSMO roles and demote the old DC (named MAIL). Does 
>> transferring FSMO roles automatically fix-up Group Policies? For 
>> example, the "Folder Redirection" group policy specifies "Root Path: 
>> \\mail.hprs.local\Users". Would that get changed to 
>> "dc1.hprs.local\Users" or would I have to manually change any GPOs, 
>> etc. to reflect the new master DC's CN host?
> 
> Do not store regular files on a DC.  The file server functions of samba 
> DC are
> different and works differently from a regular samba fileserver (be it a 
> member
> of a domain or not).
> 
> You have to have *another* server to store user files, and point your 
> Root Path to that.
> 
> /mjt
> 

Whilst I would agree that using a Unix domain member is better as a 
fileserver, this isn't because the fileserver functions are different on 
a DC, they are exactly the same. A DC and a Unix domain member both use 
the same fileserver daemon 'smbd', what is different is the idmap 
backend and the one that a DC uses is configured towards Windows and 
hence you have to set the permissions on a Windows machine.

Rowland