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It finally happened, a DC is down and I am trying to figure out what to do now. The LSI RAID card is dead (it actually caught fire briefly) and I obviously cannot boot the system until the replacement arrives. I do have a second Samba DC on the domain, but what I am seeing is that it runs like Server 2000 for some reason. It is acting like a backup DC, not a normal DC like 2008 and 2003. I

Hello guys, As I posted here on the list, I am testing the Samba4 with an external ldap we have in production. I've done several other questions and as always, was very well attended. In my lab tests, at first everything seems to be working properly. 1. I set the Samba4 as "classic primary domain controller." *smb.conf in the pastebin link*. 2. I set up an external ldap, with the

Hi all, I've a SAMBA4 AD DC primary controller, another server joined as DC too, all worked pretty good since this morning.... This morning, I need to join a lot of workstations to the domain, I begin on the first one and get an error message 'This operation must be done on the primary domain controller'.... strange. I go on my first PDC checking network, DNS (dbcheck returns no

I see the instructions about setting up a secondary domain controller at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC but I am unclear on several points. I'm familiar with Kerberos/LDAP/DNS but not Windows administration. (1) This document talks about adding Samba as a slave to "an existing Active Directory domain" (presumably running Windows). Is it the same to

Dear List, I am used to Samba 3 and LDAP. But since Samba 4 I'm struggeling hard to understand what has to be done and how a possible solution might look like for our scenario. I already found out that Samba 4 comes with its own LDAP Server and if I want to use a slapd on the same system, it should listen on another port. I know that using a LDAP backend isn't supported in the current