How to install samba 4 as an active directory domain controller

[Toxic64]

just answerd to your other post.

4.0.3 also has FSMO and GC management etc from Samba-tool.

That's not a version holy war (although I like the term) but by experience up to date products still will show your better how things work (more functions, corrected bugs, etc.. )
for instance samba-tool got a lot of improvement since 4.0.3 (process subcommand appeared in 4.0.10, domain join MEMBER also is easier than net ads etc...)

[Bernd_Schuhmacher]

Hello


At first: Many thanks for this great tutorial.

As 4.1 of samba is released is it safe to get the sources and do

./configure --enable-debug --enable-selftest 
make 
make install

for upgradeing. Or do I need to clean up some things first?

For the tutorial:
Is this step needed?

edit file /usr/local/samba/share/setup/krb5.conf

and replace $(REALM) by MYDOMAIN.LAN

I forgot it when I set up and so far I could not find a problem. could it be that $(REALM) is substituted with the default_realm fomr /etc/krb5.conf?

Thanks again

[Toxic64]

you ll have to download 4.1 to another directory like that

git clone -b v4-1-stable git://git.samba.org/samba.git samba41

then go to that new folder and go

./configure --enable-debug --enable-selftest 
make 
make install

For the tutorial:
Is this step needed?
Code:
edit file /usr/local/samba/share/setup/krb5.conf

and replace $(REALM) by MYDOMAIN.LAN
I forgot it when I set up and so far I could not find a problem. could it be that $(REALM) is substituted with the default_realm fomr /etc/krb5.conf?

It seems it's not a problem indeed but still I keep on doing it.
we might need a broader vision to know what service exactly would need this file.

[tibreizh29]

Hello,

I followed the tutorial and after a ./configure, make and make install, my server told me "The program 'Samba' is currently not installed You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install samba4".

Could someone help me understand why this message is still displayed when the manual install samba 4 went well?

thank you

[Toxic64]

Yup , untill you append necessary paths to the environnement path configuration file, you need so prefix every single of your commands with /usr/local/samba/bin/ or /usr/local/samba/sbin/ depending on the command you are trying to use.

[Bernd_Schuhmacher]

Hi

I found another two "issues" in this tutorial.
1. i think there is a little typo in this line:

echo domain MYDOMAIN.LAN >> /etc/resolv.conv

it must be

echo domain MYDOMAIN.LAN >> /etc/resolv.conf

2. I think the mentioned line is not needed. As "/etc/resolv.conf" is recreated by resolvconf everytime the server is restarted it will get deleted. Another point is that as far as I know the "Domain entry" in resolv.conf is deprecated in favour of "search". As we have a "dns-search" entry in "/etc/network/interface" we do not need this one.

I hope I am not on a wrong way with his.

[Toxic64]

echo domain MYDOMAIN.LAN >> /etc/resolv.conf ...indeed. I just corrected it. thanks.

. I think the mentioned line is not needed. As "/etc/resolv.conf" is recreated by resolvconf everytime the server is restarted it will get deleted. Another point is that as far as I know the "Domain entry" in resolv.conf is deprecated in favour of "search". As we have a "dns-search" entry in "/etc/network/interface" we do not need this one.

according to samba wiki, it's required.

[victor22]

Hi all,

My setup is the following:

Proxmox VE 3.1

VM is:

OpenVZ ubuntu 12.04.2 64 bit

Im trying to get samba up and running on this VM and i have tried twice now.

One problem I have solved is that when ever i try to use smbclient or samba-tool i get a error saying it doesn't know the command. if i do ./smbclient or ./samba-tool it works.. don't know why that is???

So when i have installed my Samba4 i need to varify everything is working... my problem is when i get to this part:

listing administrative share will show you sysvol, netlogon shares etc....


/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L localhost -U%

you should see somethin like this:




Sharename Type Comment 
--------- ---- ------- 
netlogon Disk 
sysvol Disk 
IPC$ IPC IPC Service (Samba 4.0.5) 



it means your server is up and running...

I get this errror:

root@DC01:/usr/local/samba/bin# ./smbclient -L localhost -U%
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED

How do i solve this?

This step also fails:

now you need to check authentication


/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient //localhost/netlogon -UAdministrator%"your_password" -c 'ls'

you should see this:


Domain=[MYDOMAIN] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.0.5] 
. D 0 Fri May 17 21:40:08 2013 
.. D 0 Fri May 17 21:42:36 2013

with the error:

root@DC01:/usr/local/samba/bin# ./smbclient //localhost/netlogon -UAdministrator%"your_password" -c 'ls'
Connection to localhost failed (Error NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)

How do i fix this????

THANKS

Casper

Hi I had this problem with using the ubuntu desktop and debian desktop distribution. I solved this by using the Ubuntu server.. I know im a complete scrub but the fact that the bidrectional clipboard in virtualbox doesnt seem to work, so i had to type out all the code in the terminal made it extremely tedious..

[martel2]

What a great tutorial!
Your scripts were an excellent starting point, I have upgraded and tweaked them.
I have them here:Samba4AD.tar.gz for everyone.
If you have any suggestions I might add them in.
Tested flawlessly on Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS x64

[Toxic64]

Nice man.
Thanks