DHCP, DNS and samba

Johnny2Bad

Johnny2Bad

I've been running DHCP and Samba quite nicely on my FreeBSD server for quite some time. I am running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and samba35-3.5.11 (as a workgroup server).

I am now looking at getting into Active Directory using Samba. Is DNS a requirement for Active Directory on samba35-3.5.11?

Thanking you in advance,
Jonathan.
 
Active directory is the bastard child of LDAP, Kerberos and DNS. So, yes, DNS is required.
 
If you are looking at running samba as the domain controller you might have to look at samba4. If I remember correctly samba35 does not include support for AD-controllers. You can still run it as a member of a domain though.
 
Mix room, yeah you're right I need to use samba4 for an AD controller. I set up DNS without too much drama, but samba4_devel is still too much in its infancy for me to get it going. I ran into various problems trying to install it so I'm back using samba35.

Thanks to you both for your help,
Jonathan.
 
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