I have a domain with two Samba DC's I don't want to use either of them as a fileserver, so I want to build a separate file server which is not a DC, which will deliver all the files to the lovely little windows users (including their roaming profiles). I've been looking online and there seems to be a thousand different ways to "join" my fileserver to the domain, but most of the walk throughs are outdated. If I'm right, it needs to be a member server.... Right? Can anyone point me to a walk through for such a thing (I'm using Unbuntu 20.04). It seems like it should be really simple.
How about the one from the Samba Wiki. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member It is not a walk through but it covers the important points. Regards> Am 06.09.2020 um 01:34 schrieb Peter Pollock via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>: > > ?I have a domain with two Samba DC's > > I don't want to use either of them as a fileserver, so I want to build a > separate file server which is not a DC, which will deliver all the files to > the lovely little windows users (including their roaming profiles). > > I've been looking online and there seems to be a thousand different ways to > "join" my fileserver to the domain, but most of the walk throughs are > outdated. > > If I'm right, it needs to be a member server.... Right? > > Can anyone point me to a walk through for such a thing (I'm using > Unbuntu 20.04). > > It seems like it should be really simple. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba-- Dr. Christian Naumer Unit Head Bioprocess Development B.R.A.I.N Aktiengesellschaft Darmstaedter Str. 34-36, D-64673 Zwingenberg e-mail cn at brain-biotech.com, homepage www.brain-biotech.com fon +49-6251-9331-30 / fax +49-6251-9331-11 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Zwingenberg/Bergstrasse Registergericht AG Darmstadt, HRB 24758 Vorstand: Adriaan Moelker (Vorstandsvorsitzender), Manfred Bender Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dr. Georg Kellinghusen
On 06/09/2020 00:29, Peter Pollock via samba wrote:> I have a domain with two Samba DC's > > I don't want to use either of them as a fileserver, so I want to build a > separate file server which is not a DC, which will deliver all the files to > the lovely little windows users (including their roaming profiles).Very good plan ;-)> > I've been looking online and there seems to be a thousand different ways to > "join" my fileserver to the domain, but most of the walk throughs are > outdated.No, there is only one Samba supported method of joining a Unix machine to an AD domain.> > If I'm right, it needs to be a member server.... Right?Well, yes, but when you get down to it, it is a Unix machine that is a member of an AD domain, hence 'Unix domain member' is probably a better name ;-)> > Can anyone point me to a walk through for such a thing (I'm using > Unbuntu 20.04). > > It seems like it should be really simple.It is and you know a lot of it already, you just need to run 'smbd' & 'winbind' instead of 'samba' and create a smb.conf file yourself, which is where it gets a little bit sticky. Before you can create your smb.conf, you need to make a decision, do I need the same ID everywhere on Unix machines ? If you do, you will need to use the winbind 'ad' backend and add uidNumber & gidNumber attributes to AD If you don't or you don't want to add anything to AD, you can use the either the 'rid' or 'autorid' winbind backends, you would only really need to use the 'autorid' backends if you have multiple domains. Rowland
Thank you, Dr. Naumer. I appreciate you taking the time to respond! I'm not quite proficient enough to follow the Samba Wiki through though. I refer back to it when I need clarification or don't understand what another walk-through is saying, but I'm just not smart enough to follow it on its own. I admit that and I own it! Hopefully after this weekend I'll stop blowing up this list because I'll have these new systems stable and in production! On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 11:12 PM Christian Naumer via samba < samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> How about the one from the Samba Wiki. > > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member > > It is not a walk through but it covers the important points. > > Regards > > > > Am 06.09.2020 um 01:34 schrieb Peter Pollock via samba < > samba at lists.samba.org>: > > > > ?I have a domain with two Samba DC's > > > > I don't want to use either of them as a fileserver, so I want to build a > > separate file server which is not a DC, which will deliver all the files > to > > the lovely little windows users (including their roaming profiles). > > > > I've been looking online and there seems to be a thousand different ways > to > > "join" my fileserver to the domain, but most of the walk throughs are > > outdated. > > > > If I'm right, it needs to be a member server.... Right? > > > > Can anyone point me to a walk through for such a thing (I'm using > > Unbuntu 20.04). > > > > It seems like it should be really simple. > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > > -- > Dr. Christian Naumer > Unit Head Bioprocess Development > > B.R.A.I.N Aktiengesellschaft > Darmstaedter Str. 34-36, D-64673 Zwingenberg > e-mail cn at brain-biotech.com, homepage www.brain-biotech.com > fon +49-6251-9331-30 / fax +49-6251-9331-11 > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Zwingenberg/Bergstrasse > Registergericht AG Darmstadt, HRB 24758 > Vorstand: Adriaan Moelker (Vorstandsvorsitzender), > Manfred Bender > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dr. Georg Kellinghusen > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >