Linux Domain Controller
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That how to is for CentOS 6. Don't use that. Use the modern CentOS 7. It should have everything built in for you. Any how to that has you build from source should set of alarms like crazy. I know this is for home, so experiment all you want. But enterprise IT doesn't build from source, that's a hobbyist activity or a large IT department engineering group prepping packages with custom changes. That's not how RHEL / CentOS or any enterprise OS is meant to be used.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
Keep in mind a linux domain is giving you authentication only (and authorization on the local system) no group policy as of yet.
Group Policy has been available since day one with Samba4. That's never been lacking.
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Ya I definately went with 7 hoping and assuming this wouldnt change.
I'll switch to 6.5 (Was gonna go 6.5 just for the larger amount of documentation)
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@thecreativeone91 said:
There is still a PDC emulator role.
Emulator rule, true. But no PDC.
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@Sparkum said:
Ya I definately went with 7 hoping and assuming this wouldnt change.
I'll switch to 6.5 (Was gonna go 6.5 just for the larger amount of documentation)
Don't switch to 6.5, stick with 7. There are built packages for 7 available, it just looks like your yum mirrors got messed up somehow.
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@Sparkum said:
Ya I definately went with 7 hoping and assuming this wouldnt change.
I'll switch to 6.5 (Was gonna go 6.5 just for the larger amount of documentation)
No, do NOT use a five year old Linux!! Use 7 and avoid that documentation like the plague. Building from source should be out of the question.
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Here is THE Linux "How To" site...
https://www.howtoforge.com/samba-server-installation-and-configuration-on-centos-7
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Gah ok haha
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This is ALL that it takes to install Samba4 on CentOS:
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thecreativeone91 said:
Keep in mind a linux domain is giving you authentication only (and authorization on the local system) no group policy as of yet.
Group Policy has been available since day one with Samba4. That's never been lacking.
True. But there is no replication for sysvol. So in production it would suck.
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@thecreativeone91 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
True. But there is no replication for sysvol. So in production it would suck.
There is no BUILT IN replication. But Linux has great replication natively. Here is the official SysVol Replication How To:
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@scottalanmiller said:
CentOS and OpenSuse are always my "go to" choices before anything else. Lots of things are made for Ubuntu today, so that gets used a bit. ML is on Ubuntu, for example, because the NodeBB developers develop on Ubuntu so the testing is better. Sadly, no OpenSuse on CloudatCost, yet. I'm pushing them for that and for FreeBSD.
Looks like FreeBSD is coming... https://twitter.com/devashevchuk/status/583256011529666560
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Looks like adding your own OS image is coming. That's cool. I'd prefer if they had their own images, way lower overhead to start up.
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So far I think its safe so say I dont have enough Linux knowledge to easily make a linux DC haha
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Anything in particular you are getting stuck on?
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So I believe I followed the link Scott posted fairly well.
I'm trying to do
[root@server1 ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=samba
to which I just get its not running, reading into it that may be something Cloudatcost is in control of though?
So then even moving past it, I cant seem to browse to it from my house.
I'm using a computer that is currently just pulling DHCP from my router and isnt connected to the domain. Can ping it just fine but cant go \dc (dc is what I made the netbios name)
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@Sparkum said:
So far I think its safe so say I dont have enough Linux knowledge to easily make a linux DC haha
You're doing well so far, stick with it!
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@Sparkum said:
So I believe I followed the link Scott posted fairly well.
I'm trying to do
[root@server1 ~]# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=samba
to which I just get its not running, reading into it that may be something Cloudatcost is in control of though?
So then even moving past it, I cant seem to browse to it from my house.
I'm using a computer that is currently just pulling DHCP from my router and isnt connected to the domain. Can ping it just fine but cant go \dc (dc is what I made the netbios name)
Nope sounds like the CentOS firewall isn't running. You should turn it on. If I'm not mistaken that may be:
service firewalld startThere may be a different/better way to do it though.
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Redirecting to /bin/systemctl start firewall.service
Failed to issue method call: Unit firewall.service failed to load: no such file or directory
