samba - May 2013 - Developmen state Samba as ADDC?

Hi everybody,

I read about the development state ... samba as an ad domain controller 
and that many functions / group policies have been implemented. Still, 
there is some work in progress.

Is there a documentation where I can look up the functions not 
implemented yet?

Regards,
Ulrich Schneider

Not sure about documentation -- is there a particular feature you're
looking for?


I've been running Samba4 as an AD DC for a few months now with ~20
Windows 8 clients & users.

Minus one big issue (crashing bug 9822 which was patched quickly),
it's been incredibly stable and easy to use.

Samba4 is running with mapped home directories & lots of group
policies, perfectly fine.



The only issues I have are relatively minor. They're:

* A few rare crashes in smbd, which I see every week or two.
 ** https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9853
 ** https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9873
 Though these sound bad, they just crash one thread. The clients seem
to work fine (worst case, one client will stall during a user logon,
but is fine after restarting the client).

* DNS updates w/ DHCP-assigned IPs don't work:
 ** https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9559
 Looks like this is being worked on now.

* Winbind crashes a lot:
 ** Repeatable crashes with ls -lha:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9820
 ** Repeatable crashes with getfacl:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9842

* Samba has a few random errors in the log, which I'm not sure how to
interpret
 ** Failed to modify SPNs: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9848

All those issues are pretty rare or minor.

Samba4 has been working great as an AD DC! Plus, the dev team is super
responsive if you have a real, significant bug.


- Nick



On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Ulrich Schneider
<man at ulrichschneider.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I read about the development state ... samba as an ad domain controller and
> that many functions / group policies have been implemented. Still, there is
> some work in progress.
>
> Is there a documentation where I can look up the functions not implemented
> yet?
>
> Regards,
> Ulrich Schneider
> --
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> instructions:  https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba

Sure, hope my smb.conf is helpful:


[global]
workgroup = CORP
realm = CORP.EXAMPLE.COM
 netbios name = SERVERNAME
server role = active directory domain controller
dns forwarder = 192.168.0.1
 guest account = nobody
load printers = no
printing = bsd
 printcap name = /dev/null
disable spoolss = yes
panic action = /bin/sleep 99999999
 [netlogon]
path = /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol/corp.example.com/scripts
 read only = No

[sysvol]
path = /usr/local/samba/var/locks/sysvol
read only = No

[homes]
        path = /home/CORP
        read only = No
        browseable = No

[dropbox]
path = /srv/samba/dropbox
 read only = No
browseable = Yes
create mask = 664
 directory mask = 775
guest ok = Yes



On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Ulrich Schneider
<man at ulrichschneider.de>wrote:
> Could you please post  your smb.conf?
> That would be great.
> Thanks
>
> Am 25.05.13 16:29, schrieb Nick Semenkovich:
>
>> Not sure about documentation -- is there a particular feature
you're
>> looking for?
>>
>>
>> I've been running Samba4 as an AD DC for a few months now with ~20
>> Windows 8 clients & users.
>>
>> Minus one big issue (crashing bug 9822 which was patched quickly),
>> it's been incredibly stable and easy to use.
>>
>> Samba4 is running with mapped home directories & lots of group
>> policies, perfectly fine.
>>
>>
>>
>> The only issues I have are relatively minor. They're:
>>
>> * A few rare crashes in smbd, which I see every week or two.
>>   **
https://bugzilla.samba.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=9853<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9853>
>>   **
https://bugzilla.samba.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=9873<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9873>
>>   Though these sound bad, they just crash one thread. The clients seem
>> to work fine (worst case, one client will stall during a user logon,
>> but is fine after restarting the client).
>>
>> * DNS updates w/ DHCP-assigned IPs don't work:
>>   **
https://bugzilla.samba.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=9559<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9559>
>>   Looks like this is being worked on now.
>>
>> * Winbind crashes a lot:
>>   ** Repeatable crashes with ls -lha:
>>
https://bugzilla.samba.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=9820<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9820>
>>   ** Repeatable crashes with getfacl:
>>
https://bugzilla.samba.org/**show_bug.cgi?id=9842<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9842>
>>
>> * Samba has a few random errors in the log, which I'm not sure how
to
>> interpret
>>   ** Failed to modify SPNs: https://bugzilla.samba.org/**
>> show_bug.cgi?id=9848
<https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9848>
>>
>> All those issues are pretty rare or minor.
>>
>> Samba4 has been working great as an AD DC! Plus, the dev team is super
>> responsive if you have a real, significant bug.
>>
>>
>> - Nick
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Ulrich Schneider
>> <man at ulrichschneider.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> I read about the development state ... samba as an ad domain
controller
>>> and
>>> that many functions / group policies have been implemented. Still,
there
>>> is
>>> some work in progress.
>>>
>>> Is there a documentation where I can look up the functions not
>>> implemented
>>> yet?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Ulrich Schneider
>>> --
>>> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
>>> instructions: 
https://lists.samba.org/**mailman/options/samba<https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba>
>>>
>>
>>