samba - Jan 2018 - Where to find out documentation on how does Samba work ?

Hi:

I want to find information about how does Samba work as a Domain 
Controller. I mean, the interaction with kerberos, DNS, bind9 as 
backend, the process of login from a workstation, etc.

Is there a good source of information out there?

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:55:00 -0500
Denis Morejon via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I want to find information about how does Samba work as a Domain 
> Controller. I mean, the interaction with kerberos, DNS, bind9 as 
> backend, the process of login from a workstation, etc.
> 
> Is there a good source of information out there?
> 
A good place to start would be the Samba wiki:

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

Any questions, ask here.

Rowland

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 13:54:25 -0500
Denis Morejon <denis.morejon at etecsa.cu> wrote:
> Rowland:
> 
> I think wiki is good. It's useful as a step by step guide to deploy 
> Samba. But I don't find a general explanation of how each piece works!
> 
> 
A Samba AD DC is composed of several components, all working together.
These components individually work just like they would if you where
running them separately. Bind 9 works just like any other Bind9 dns
server, except that the zones are stored in AD and you use bind_dlz
to connect them to the Bind9 server. Samba uses Heimdal for
kerberos, so you could read documentation on this. Otherwise a Samba
AD DC works very much like a Windows AD DC, so you could read any
windows documentation and expect it to relevant.

Rowland