samba - Jul 2013 - Samba4 AD SysVol Replication (HowTo + Script)

Hello,

as it is often a question here on the lists and by many others on the 
internet, I wrote a new HowTo for setting up a SysVol replication 
"workaround", until Samba supports this feature by itself:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SysVol_Replication

For the replication process, I wrote a Bash script, put it on my 
webspace and linked it in the HowTo, which should describe everything.

I hope this would be a good start/solution for people currently missing 
this feature.

Feel free to give suggestions, comments, etc. :-)


Regards,
Marc


PS: If the Samba developers think it would be an advantage, it would be 
OK for me, if the script would be added to the samba package.

Hello Dewayne,

Am 24.07.2013 01:59, schrieb Dewayne Geraghty:
 > Where you mention in the document PDC role, do you mean
 > PdcEmulationMasterRole, or is there some other meaning?

Yes. I thought the DC with the FSMO role "PDC" would be a good choice
to
be the "Master", because some Microsoft tools, like the GPO console,
can
be configured to connect to the PDC automatically. And group policies is 
one of the most important things, stored on the SysVol share.



 > Sorry for being pedantic.  I'm very new to AD DC, where I've found
 > that being very precise is necessary; but very old to samba
 > (since 2.2.5) and openldap.

No problem. It's good to get improvement suggestions. I'll tonight add 
some more information to the HowTo, to be more specific on that.


Regards,
Marc