Nethserver appears in MS-Active Directory as DC

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Good Day Masters.

I am a newbie to nethserver and exploring.
I do have a Windows base server 2022 acting as my primary Active directory
-I tried nethserver as a secondary Active Directory.
here is my question
In Windows based server OS, I can promote a windows based server OS as a additional Domain controllers, installed the Services of Active Directory and DNS services

May I know if i Can do this to nethserver? like it will appear as domain controller in MS- Active Directory

May I know if there are steps on doing this? and what are the per-requsites?

apologies if this was asked many times already.
thank you

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No, that’s not supported, NS8 can join AD as a member but not as DC yet.

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Thank you so much for education.

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@mrmarkuz, @nvargas

This is not quite correct - as per here:

https://docs.nethserver.org/projects/ns8/en/latest/user_domains.html

Only one samba AD instance per node is allowed - more are possible on other nodes in the cluster. This limitation is due to the ports a Samba AD MUST use, only one per host.

Additional caveat: Only the master AD is actually accessible outside of the cluster… :frowning:

And Sysvol sync is not built in, but “can” be done eg via rsync or other shared file system…

As not all features are provided by Samba yet, a full mixed AD with a current Windows AD Domain is not really possible at the moment and in forseeable future.

Sadly, Samba is not quite ready for prime time in AD sense “yet”, and especially not yet in NS8.

My 2 cents
Andy