Am 20.01.26 um 05:54 schrieb Sami Hulkko via samba:> Hi, > > In section Configure DHCP to update DNS records - SambaWiki <https:// > wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configure_DHCP_to_update_DNS_records>?there is > offered a script for DHCP to DNS auto uptate that should have addendum. > According to? RFCs, including RFC 1035 and RFC 1123 DNS labels can not > have special characters have space or start with hyphen. > > In section: > > .... > > # exit if name contains a space > case ${name} in > ? ? *\ * ) > ? ? ? ? logger "Invalid hostname '${name}' ...Exiting" > ? ? ? ? exit > ? ? ? ? ;; > esac > > .... > > One should add these cases.May I add something else for the wiki, just because I found it right now? preparing a new Samba-DC on Debian-13.3 tried to follow https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Distribution-specific_Package_Installation#Debian/Ubuntu In my opinion python3-samba is missing, otherwise the binary samba-tool isn't installed, right? Maybe I missed some step in https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller but I can't find that package mentioned anywhere. I will see if I find something else along the way ;-)
On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:36:23 +0100 "Stefan G. Weichinger via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:> May I add something else for the wiki, just because I found it right > now? > > preparing a new Samba-DC on Debian-13.3 > > tried to follow > > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Distribution-specific_Package_Installation#Debian/Ubuntu > > In my opinion python3-samba is missing, otherwise the binary > samba-tool isn't installed, right? > > Maybe I missed some step in > https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Domain_Controller > but I can't find that package mentioned anywhere. > > I will see if I find something else along the way ;-) > >Ah, there is now a package called 'samba-ad-dc' that you need to install for a DC to function, this pulls in 'python3-samba' as one of its dependencies. I will update the wiki. Rowland