samba - Apr 2014 - Samba AD Setup report (success)

Hi Samba-Team,

you wrote that you'd like to hear from users, so here I go ...:

I was just following your samba wiki on how to implement a new AD domain on an
open Suse 12.3 using the Sernet rpm.

The documents are very precise, easy to understand and follow. Especially, the
example makes it easy to understand.

Two things that I have/had a little difficulties with:

1)      In your example, you use 192.168.1.1 as IP for your domain controller.
From my experience, I would expect x.y.z.1 rather for routers than for the DC.
(This is what I have been seeing in the companies quite a lot, up to .10)

2)      In the DNS/bind-section (resolv.conf), you refer to the same IP, which
is the DC, of course. This is correct, but maybe it could help, if you
explicitely state, that it should be the IP of the DC, and not the one of your
internet router or localhost/127.0.0.1 (sometimes found in Windows tutorials,
which is wrong).
In Windows tutorials, I read that you should configure the DNS-IPs of your ISP
as DNS-FORWARDER (rather than your internet router).

Maybe 2-3 words about those topics (role of router, ISP) could be of general
help to users.

Thanks for all your work!
Marcus Bogenst?tter

Hello Marcus,

Am 18.04.2014 15:23, schrieb BOGENST?TTER Marcus:
 > The documents are very precise, easy to understand and follow.
 > Especially, the example makes it easy to understand.

Good to hear successful stories.



> Two things that I have/had a little difficulties with:
>
> 1)      In your example, you use 192.168.1.1 as IP for your
 > domain controller. From my experience, I would expect x.y.z.1
 > rather for routers than for the DC. (This is what I have
been
> seeing in the companies quite a lot, up to .10)
My previous employer and most of its customers used "254" for
gateways.
At work someone defined "5" for that. I think there's no standard
or
best practise on this.

You can find the definition of the used IPs, names, etc. in the HowTo:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_AD_DC_HOWTO#Server_information



> 2)      In the DNS/bind-section (resolv.conf), you refer to
 > the same IP, which is the DC, of course. This is correct, but
 > maybe it could help, if you explicitely state, that it should
 > be the IP of the DC, and not the one of your internet router or
 > localhost/127.0.0.1 (sometimes found in Windows tutorials,
 > which is wrong).

I did a small change on that in the Wiki.




Regards,
Marc