[Samba] Samba first time run

[William Edwards]

Hi Léa,

Lm Loge via samba schreef op 2023-03-27 18:26:
> @RowlandPenny
> 
> And why not may I ask you?
> All I'm doing is in the "wiki.samba.org" website pages (see link below 
> for example), can't it be trusted?
> (If not, is there a reliable manual for Samba installation, 
> administration and use?)
> 
> I thought the "make install" command, installed something, as its name 
> indicates...
> It's written in the wiki:
> "To install Samba, run:
> $ sudo make install"
> (Source: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Build_Samba_from_Source)

You have chosen to install Samba from source. The very first article 
linked to on the wiki main page, "Setting up Samba as an Active 
Directory Domain Controller", informs the reader of available 
installation methods, of which installing from source is only one. 
Choosing this method is up to the user, not dictated by the wiki.

Ask yourself this: do I have any reason to install from source? If the 
answer is 'no' or 'I don't know', install a package. You will find the 
link to the instruction in the aforementioned article.

Hope that helps.

> 
> And, at the very end of the webpage just mentioned, you have the line:
> "To manually start the Samba Active Directory (AD) domain controller 
> (DC) service, enter:
> # systemctl start samba-ad-dc"
> Which I did and which resulted in a failure (status=1/FAILURE).
> (Of course, I created the systemd unit file beforehand.)
> 
> In this webpage, there is no such instruction as to provision the DC 
> before starting the Samba service.
> 
> So, I followed VERY CAREFULLY the instructions in this webpage and it 
> ended up with a failure.
> (And, by the way, I also made a whole "tour" of the wiki which took me 
> quite some time.)
> 
> That's why I ended up trying to simply run 
> "/usr/local/samba/sbin/samba",
> just in case I would have done something wrong when creating the 
> systemd unit file (and with systemctl) as I'm not familiar with it.
> 
> I am just trying to understand the "Samba system", as well as I can and 
> at my level, because you know, every time I have to deal with Samba, 
> like every two or three years, it's a mess, a nightmare.
> In 2018, we worked for nearly a whole month together to fix my setup, 
> if you remember.
> But, no, you don't remember obviously, there are too many people you 
> are answering to here.
> I know Samba is a free product but I really have tons of other things 
> to do for my work and I am not specialized in Samba, or AD.
> In 2020, Van Belle, helped me, it took a lot less time, a couple of 
> days.
> But this year, I asked him for help directly and he didn't answer me 
> (which I understand by the way).
> 
> The way you are putting things is somehow unpleasant.
> You shouldn't take advantage of the fact you are among the people who 
> "know" things.
> --
> Léa

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With kind regards,

William Edwards