samba - Apr 2020 - Samba domain member DC preferred list

Hello,

Is there a way to provide a list of DC that Samba should try to join?
I know that in command "net ads join" I can use "-S" to
select with DC
to use, but it seems it doesn't accept list, only one single server.

Regards
Andrea

Does the "password server" setting in the smb.conf achieve it?

Regards
Andrea


On 4/20/2020 6:40 PM, Andrea Cucciarre' wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there a way to provide a list of DC that Samba should try to join?
> I know that in command "net ads join" I can use "-S" to
select with DC
> to use, but it seems it doesn't accept list, only one single server.
>
> Regards
> Andrea
>

On 20/04/2020 17:49, Andrea Cucciarre' via samba
wrote:
> Does the "password server" setting in the smb.conf achieve it?
No, you shouldn't use this, you should allow Samba to choose the best DC 
to use.
>
> On 4/20/2020 6:40 PM, Andrea Cucciarre' wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there a way to provide a list of DC that Samba should try to join?
>> I know that in command "net ads join" I can use
"-S" to select with
>> DC to use, but it seems it doesn't accept list, only one single
server.
Why do you feel you need to do this ?

If you do not specify a DC to use during the join, Samba will search for 
the best DC to use.

It might help if you can tell us why you need to specify a particular DC 
or list of DC's.

Rowland