NethServer as additional Domain Controller

[Tripple_Tee]

Hi guys, is Neth going to act as additional Domain Controller in the future?

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

I hope so but we rely on Samba and for instance sysvol replication is not supported actually.

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Samba_DC_to_an_Existing_Active_Directory#Sysvol_Replication

How to join NethServer to a domain as DC, don’t use in production:

https://wiki.nethserver.org/doku.php?id=howto:add_ns7_samba_domain_controller_to_existing_active_directory

My partly successful tries:

Add/Replace existing AD Domain Controller with ns7

Hello, i tested joining Nethserver/NSDC to a Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard and at least the joins worked. I used https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Joining_a_Samba_DC_to_an_Existing_Active_Directory as a starting point. I setup a new domain admin called superuser to make the joins. I did: systemd-run -M nsdc -t /bin/bash On the NSDC: echo domain cmb.local > /etc/resolv.conf Added my Windows Server as nameserver echo nameserver 192.168.1.20 >> /etc/resolv.conf Joining: samba-tool…

[Tripple_Tee]

I have tried the Zentyal 5.0, it can join Win2008 server domain, or another Zentyal domain as a DC. Not sure how they do in the background. I am still quite confuse about Samba run in a container and the rational behind it.

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

Redhat doesn’t provide AD-enabled samba packages.

Some links to “container” discussions:

Alternatives to Samba DC in Linux container

I still don't get why Samba has to be run in a container I have read these articles. I am interested in whether e.g. The following scripts in an adapted form would be an alternative. https://github.com/SebbaGerra/Samba4Centos7 https://github.com/JohnWillker/samba4_centos_6.8/blob/master/samba4_centos6.8.sh Rosi

I still don't get why Samba has to be run in a container

[quote=“salvois, post:12, topic:4865, full:true”] As a side note, I still don’t get why Samba has to be run in a container. [/quote] I fully share. I’m discovering Nethserver I can’t yet figure out why such constraint, design choice or whatever reason behind this. However I’m very far from having read lot of documentation or forum yet. Nevertheless, it looks very strange too me I even don’t understand what could be the added value Well, I do understand that POSIX ACL w…

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

I found this but I don’t know if it’s a viable way

Samba 4 Additional Domain Controller for failover Replication on CentOS 7

[robb (Rob Bosch)]

Adding another (uncontrolled) repository for CentOS Samba4 packages?

[des (Dominik)]

Bad idea - if something breaks, then this could be a problem…