samba - Feb 2021 - force the DC to be used when joining the domain

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 8:51 AM Andrea Cucciarre' via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> in a scenario where an AD domain have multiple DCs, is there a way or an
> smb.conf setting to force samba to use a specific DC to join the domain?
Before Rowland gets to it: Why do you care?

In pretty much any Active Directory setup, if you care about which DCs
are used for a given client, you should be using separate "Sites" (as
configured by the Sites and Services MMC).

Jonathon

On 17/02/2021 13:59, Jonathon Reinhart via samba wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 8:51 AM Andrea Cucciarre' via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> in a scenario where an AD domain have multiple DCs, is there a way or
an
>> smb.conf setting to force samba to use a specific DC to join the
domain?
> Before Rowland gets to it: Why do you care?
>
> In pretty much any Active Directory setup, if you care about which DCs
> are used for a given client, you should be using separate "Sites"
(as
> configured by the Sites and Services MMC).
>
> Jonathon
>
Took the words out of my mouth ?

However, if you must use a specific DC, I believe you can use 
'--server=SERVER'

Rowland