[Samba] DC controller and DNS

Rowland Penny
Mon, 02 Aug 2021 14:40:56 -0000

On Mon, 2021-08-02 at 10:16 -0400, ve2cii--- via samba
wrote:
>     The reason I did this, is because I already have a dns (bind)
> (which can't be moved to another
> machine) running on the machine.  When I start up samba the dns port
> 53
> in samba conflicts
> with bind.  Ok I will move the zone file to the machine and setup
> samba

If by 'move the zone file' you mean create a standard Bind zone file,
then, yet again, stop. The zone files are in AD and you either need to
use the Samba internal dns server or use Bind9 configure to use the AD
zones.

> to use it.
> Can you point me to the proper instructions (since I was using
> possibly
> outdated and conflicting)
> instructions on how to do this?
>

Have you tried reading the Samba wiki:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page

Rowland