On 11/9/18 1:10 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:> It will update whatever you ask it to. You do realise that a Samba DC > doesn't need to sync passwords with anything else, it where you > authenticate from.No, I don't actually don't know much about this stack but what I will look into setting up a DC. If it involves joining the samba DC to the corporate AD domain, it will not be an option for me however.> > There have been numerous reports of problems with NT4-style domains and > windows 10 i.e. they just don't work any more, so I would seriously > think hard before setting up a new LDAP based Samba server.Definitely need a solution that will work with Win10 so thank you for the heads-up.
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:00:05 -0600 dee heffem <dheffem at gmail.com> wrote:> On 11/9/18 1:10 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: > > It will update whatever you ask it to. You do realise that a Samba > > DC doesn't need to sync passwords with anything else, it where you > > authenticate from. > > No, I don't actually don't know much about this stack but what I will > look into setting up a DC. If it involves joining the samba DC to the > corporate AD domain, it will not be an option for me however.No you don't have to join it to the corporate domain, you could use whatever domain you like, can I suggest you have a read here: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page and then come back with the inevitable questions ;-) Rowland
On 11/9/18 2:08 PM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote: <snip>> > No you don't have to join it to the corporate domain, you could use > whatever domain you like, can I suggest you have a read here: > > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page > > and then come back with the inevitable questions ;-) >Admittedly, I have not touched samba in over 10 years. It doesn't seem like it's been that long; obviously much has changed. I will have a look. Thanks!