No DNS servers are provided by dnsmasq

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NS8 version?

I can’t make it works, i can create the domain and provide dhcp (i install dnsmaq module) to a windows client, but dns server it’s empty in the client, and neither can access internet.

NS7 was easy in this topic.

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Hi,

I moved your question to a new topic.
NS7 was an all-in-one solution but NS8 is an application server so the recommended way is to use your router/firewall for DNS/DHCP. For example NethSecurity provides DHCP/DNS.

Regarding samba see also User domains — NS8 documentation

To set custom DNS servers in dnsmasq, you would need to use the advanced configuration, see DNSMasq — NS8 documentation

Create the file /var/lib/nethserver/dnsmasq1/state/dnsmasq.d/99custom.conf (assuming your dnsmasq instance is dnsmasq1) with following content to for example set DNS servers to 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8:

dhcp-option=6,1.1.1.1,8.8.8.8

Restart dnsmasq:

systemctl restart dnsmasq1
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Thanks for your reply.

I’ve installed opnsense and works.

One doubt, Why in the software center there is a module to install samba if according to the description it does the same as the samba that is activated when creating the AD domain AD in the domain and users module?

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The one is the samba AD (user domain) with the option to include a file server.
The other is just a file server that could for example join to some other domain, see Samba file server — NS8 documentation

This way you could have samba AD on node 1 and a samba file server on node 2.
It was a wanted feature, see for example Advanced Samba / File Server Options - an open discussion

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