Andrea Cucciarre'
2021-Feb-17 14:25 UTC
[Samba] force the DC to be used when joining the domain
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 > > >
Hi! The option "password server = IP-DC" in smb.conf,? wouldn't that be what you want? Regars; Em 17/02/2021 11:25, Andrea Cucciarre' via samba escreveu:> 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 >> >> >> > >