samba - Feb 2021 - force the DC to be used when joining the domain

On 17/02/2021 13:59, Jonathon Reinhart via samba wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 8:51 AM Andrea Cucciarre' via samba
> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> in a scenario where an AD domain have multiple DCs, is there a way or
an
>> smb.conf setting to force samba to use a specific DC to join the
domain?
> Before Rowland gets to it: Why do you care?
>
> In pretty much any Active Directory setup, if you care about which DCs
> are used for a given client, you should be using separate "Sites"
(as
> configured by the Sites and Services MMC).
>
> Jonathon
>
Took the words out of my mouth ?

However, if you must use a specific DC, I believe you can use 
'--server=SERVER'

Rowland

Thanks you.
I have been exposed to Sites just one time, my understanding is that 
it's a configuration that has to be done entirely in the AD, not in Samba

Regards
Andrea Cucciarre'



On 2/17/2021 3:06 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> On 17/02/2021 13:59, Jonathon Reinhart via samba wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 8:51 AM Andrea Cucciarre' via samba
>> <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>> in a scenario where an AD domain have multiple DCs, is there a way 
>>> or an
>>> smb.conf setting to force samba to use a specific DC to join the 
>>> domain?
>> Before Rowland gets to it: Why do you care?
>>
>> In pretty much any Active Directory setup, if you care about which DCs
>> are used for a given client, you should be using separate
"Sites" (as
>> configured by the Sites and Services MMC).
>>
>> Jonathon
>>
>
> Took the words out of my mouth ?
>
> However, if you must use a specific DC, I believe you can use 
> '--server=SERVER'
>
> Rowland
>
>
>