Perhaps I should have been more clear/explicit. ? The Wiki says that you should ONLY use "samba-tool" to join a member server IF the samba version is >4.15.0. (https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member#Joining_the_Domain) ? Obviously in this case, we have mixed versions. But the machine being joined is running a samba version >4.15.0. ? Again, I'm like 95% sure this is fine, but asking now can save many hours trying to recover whacked DCs, so here I am. ? ?> I have three DC's - one running Louis's packages (4.15.3 on Ubuntu 20.04) and two others on 18.04 running the distro packages (4.7.6). > ? > I'm joining a member file server running Louis' packages 4.15.3 - and want to make sure that joining using samba-tool is fine. > Recap: 2 or the 3 DC are running a mixture of 4.7.6 and 4.15.0+, but the file server being joined as a member is running > 4.15.0. > ? > I assume it's ok since the machine running samba-tool is >4.15, but I also don't want to whack my AD back-end etc. > ? > TIA > -Greg ?
On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 06:44 -0800, Gregory Sloop via samba wrote:> Perhaps I should have been more clear/explicit. > > The Wiki says that you should ONLY use "samba-tool" to join a member > server IF the samba version is >4.15.0. ( > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member#Joining_the_Domain > ) > > Obviously in this case, we have mixed versions. > But the machine being joined is running a samba version >4.15.0. > > Again, I'm like 95% sure this is fine, but asking now can save many > hours trying to recover whacked DCs, so here I am.It was a bit confusing, I have updated the wikipage and hopefully it is now clearer. Originally, when you ran 'samba-tool domain join', the code created 'something', not sure what the 'something' was, but it wasn't a Unix domain member. The code was rewritten and now it creates a proper Unix domain member, provide you use Samba >= 4.15.0 Rowland
Even for the 4.15 series I found samba-tool to be less effective than `net ads join`, so always just use that: # net ads join -U administrator On 2/22/22 08:44, Gregory Sloop via samba wrote:> Perhaps I should have been more clear/explicit. > > The Wiki says that you should ONLY use "samba-tool" to join a member server IF the samba version is >4.15.0. (https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member#Joining_the_Domain) > > Obviously in this case, we have mixed versions. > But the machine being joined is running a samba version >4.15.0. > > Again, I'm like 95% sure this is fine, but asking now can save many hours trying to recover whacked DCs, so here I am. > > > >> I have three DC's - one running Louis's packages (4.15.3 on Ubuntu 20.04) and two others on 18.04 running the distro packages (4.7.6). >> >> I'm joining a member file server running Louis' packages 4.15.3 - and want to make sure that joining using samba-tool is fine. >> Recap: 2 or the 3 DC are running a mixture of 4.7.6 and 4.15.0+, but the file server being joined as a member is running > 4.15.0. >> >> I assume it's ok since the machine running samba-tool is >4.15, but I also don't want to whack my AD back-end etc. >> >> TIA >> -Greg