Hello fellow list members, does anyone knows of a good HOWTO (or a book) for setting up Samba as a PDC? I have been dealing around with the Samba HOWTO collection, but to be honest, this is a hard job. There are some errors in it and descriptions are not this good. I even don't know what all the tools are for. I'm really experienced in Linux server stuff, but this one drives me mad. Any tips are welcome. :-) Thanks Florian
On Thursday, December 23, 2004 09:10 am, Florian Effenberger wrote:> Hello fellow list members, > > does anyone knows of a good HOWTO (or a book) for setting up Samba as a > PDC?The book "Samba-3 By Example", available in hard copy from a bookstore or via download from the Samba site, is a terrific "cookbook" in that it gives you specific, step-by-step instructions for a variety of real-world situations, including setting up a PDC. -- _______________________________________________________________ A Message From... L. Mark Stone Reliable Networks of Maine, LLC "We manage your network so you can manage your business." 477 Congress Street Portland, ME 04101 Tel: (207) 772-5678 Web: http://www.RNoME.com
> does anyone knows of a good HOWTO (or a book) for setting up Samba as a PDC?ftp://ftp.lueckdatasystems.com/pub/presentations/klugsamba3pdc-bookreview.pdf> I have been dealing around with the Samba HOWTO collection, but to be > honest, this is a hard job.No, not really.> There are some errors in it and descriptions > are not this good. I even don't know what all the tools are for. > I'm really experienced in Linux server stuff,You need to be experienced, or become verses in, Windows networking and security issues and configuration, just as if your DC was hosted one a 'real' Win32 host. It is a windows domain after all.
Hi Mark,> The book "Samba-3 By Example", available in hard copy from a bookstore or via > download from the Samba site, is a terrific "cookbook" in that it gives you > specific, step-by-step instructions for a variety of real-world situations, > including setting up a PDC.thanks, that sounds good! Will check it out! Florian
Hi,> ftp://ftp.lueckdatasystems.com/pub/presentations/klugsamba3pdc-bookreview.pdfthat one is cool, thanks a lot!>>I have been dealing around with the Samba HOWTO collection, but to be >>honest, this is a hard job. > No, not really.It contains errors (Ex: net command has rid setting when using modify) and the differnet tools (pdbedit, net, ...) are not described completely. Florian
On Thursday 23 December 2004 09:11, Florian Effenberger wrote:> Hi, > > > ftp://ftp.lueckdatasystems.com/pub/presentations/klugsamba3pdc-bookreview > >.pdf > > that one is cool, thanks a lot! > > >>I have been dealing around with the Samba HOWTO collection, but to be > >>honest, this is a hard job. > > > > No, not really. > > It contains errors (Ex: net command has rid setting when using modify) > and the differnet tools (pdbedit, net, ...) are not described completely.Please download the current version from: www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf I apologize for all the errors in it. Would you please post a detailed bug report so I can fix it. It is important that we do not mislead our users - so please give this urgent attention. Either post a detailed bug report to: http://bugzilla.samba.org or else email me directly - or for that matter direct to this list. I will fix any errors immediately. Thanks for making me aware that there is such a problem. Cheers, John T. -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.
Hi John, no problem, I was just a little bit confused by all those tools. What I miss most in the documentation, is a description of what the tools actually do. What are they for, when do I need them. Why shall I groupmap a user to Domain User group when it works fine without? One particular error I recall is in the example when you do net groupmap to local groups. The correct syntax is net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=smbadmins net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Users" unixgroup=smbusers net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Guests" unixgroup=smbguests and, AFAIR, you did something with rid=512/3/4 which leads to an error message. Bug repord has been filed in September. Thanks Florian
Florian Effenberger wrote:> net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=smbadmins > net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Users" unixgroup=smbusers > net groupmap modify ntgroup="Domain Guests" unixgroup=smbguestsYup, those caused errors for me as well. I never did understand what these commands were meant to acomplish. I found alternate commands to map Linux groups to domain groups and those domain groups to local groups. All documented in that presentation PDF file. -- Michael Lueck Lueck Data Systems Remove the upper case letters NOSPAM to contact me directly.