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...ing on our firewall appliance and have samba refer to that? If so, what are the disadvantages ? Does it prevent machines from joining the domain? Finally, if it is not possible to allow samba to not run any dns, is there a best practice from dns naming conventions. For example, if our dns name is myschool.com all our user principals would be username at myschool.com but if samba must run its own dns, could we have a subdomain such as authdom.myschool.com And if we did, would the user principal then become username at authdom.myschool.com ? -- David Bear mobile: (602) 903-6476

We have an old AD running on windows that we want to retire. It was not set up correctly but it is providing dns under a domain -- call it myschool.edu. Our samba server we set up on the domain we called ad.myschool.edu. We want to have our windows dns forward requests for the new ad.myschool.edu domain to our samba server and windows doesn't seem to want to do so. We have attempted to create a primary 'subdomain', a 'stub doma...

I am using the following syntax to create a new user samba-tool user add user passwd --userou=Faculty --given-name=new --surname=user --gecos=198 --mail-address=newuser at myschool.edu Which gives me the following error: ERROR(<type 'exceptions.ValueError'>): Failed to add user 'user': - unable to parse dn string File "/home/vms/devbin/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/user.py", line 176, in run uid=uid, uidnumber=uid_number, gi...

Hi All, I am looking into the feasability of using Samba/LDAP for domain control across several schools in my area, and would be interested to hear of anyone who has any experience/thoughts on how this could work. The schools share a community learning resource centre, and I am looking for ways for all users to be able to log in at their own schools, and also at the learning resource