Success: samba4 on gentoo
Dirk Gouders
gouders at et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de
Wed Sep 7 14:39:19 MDT 2011
James Gilliland <neclimdul at gmail.com> writes:
> I have an ebuild I've been using. I've been building it just fine but I hadn't
> posted the ebuild back to github yet. I've had some trouble getting samba 3.5
> DNS so I'd held of publishing it in case there was a problem. Looks liek that
> might be something else though so if people are interested in an ebuild I'll
> post it so we can collaborate.
Thanks for the offer, James. I would be interested in the ebuild.
Dirk
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Dirk Gouders <
> gouders at et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:32:10 +0200, Dirk Gouders
> > <gouders at et.bocholt.fh-gelsenkirchen.de> wrote:
> >>as suggested in the wiki I'd like to report success in running samba4
> >>(current git clone) on a gentoo system.
> >
> > just out of curiosity: Did you use one of the ebuilds for samba-git,
> > available from various portage overlays? If yes, which one?
> > Did you have to do adjustments to the ebuild in question?
>
> No, I built it manually -- first time like this:
>
> $ ./configure.developer --enable-fhs --prefix=/usr
> $ make
> $ make quicktest
> $ make install
>
> Before I switch to ebuilds I want to get a deeper understanding of
> samba4 so that I get a feeling where to search for errors should
> problems arise.
>
> Currently I am testing replication and did a fresh install with some
> other configure options:
>
> ./configure.developer --enable-fhs \
> --prefix=/usr \
> --sysconfdir=/etc/ \
> --localstatedir=/var \
> --with-modulesdir=/usr/lib/samba/modules \
> --with-privatedir=/var/lib/samba/private \
> --with-lockdir=/var/cache/samba \
> --with-logfilebase=/var/log/samba \
> --with-piddir=/var/run/samba
>
> I currently have some problems with "samba-tool domain join" but I think
> that has nothing to do with samba but with the fact that for the domain
> in question there are no proper DNS entries:
>
> $ samba-tool domain join swt-pool.test.lab DC -Uadministrator --realm=
> SWT-POOL.TEST.LAB
> Finding a writeable DC for domain 'swt-pool.test.lab'
> ERROR(exception): uncaught exception - Failed to find a writeable DC for
> domain 'swt-pool.test.lab'
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line
> 141, in _run
> return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", line
> 110, in run
> domain_critical_only=domain_critical_only)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 585, in
> join_DC
> ctx = dc_join(server, creds, lp, site, netbios_name, targetdir, domain)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 63, in
> __init__
> ctx.server = ctx.find_dc(domain)
> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 173, in
> find_dc
> raise Exception("Failed to find a writeable DC for domain '%s'" %
> domain)
>
> Dirk
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