-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Wood [mailto:esiot...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, 1 February 2013 12:22 AM
To: Andrew Bartlett
Cc: Dewayne; samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Questions for minimal AD DC, DNS setup
and Posix use
Hi
On 31 January 2013 13:56, Andrew Bartlett <abart...@samba.org> wrote:
On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 16:55 +1100, Dewayne wrote:
Our plan is to have one AD DC running in Head Office, RODC's at
Branches and a second writeable DC at a contingency site.
Fileshares
will run on separate servers. The Windows 2003/2008
Servers use authentication services from samba4 and run
applications. Our current environment is Samba-3.6.9
PDC,BDCs & fileshares, openldap stores samba, posix and acts
as heimdal backend - for SSO.
My questions are:
AD DC
Are smbd and winbindd necessary on the AD DC. I would prefer to
start samba with only what it needs to function. When I
kill the smbd and winbindd processes, the kerberos, ldap &
dns functionality remain. How can I produce a minimal AD DC:
1) Do I need smbd to parse the smb.conf for samba4 to
start correctly?
on the AD DC, you start only 'samba'. We may start other
binaries or
provide services via plugins, but you only have to start 'samba'.
2) If not, is there a better way than "kill -9" to achieve
the result of samba4 without smbd, winbindd?
You should just kill the parent 'samba' process and any child
processes will notice this and go away. As you know, in
general don't
generally kill -9 stuff, as something may be in progress.
I think tdb
is safe for kill -9 these days, but it has always been best
not to do
this as a first choice.
I think for the above two questions he's asking how to run the "samba"
binary without it spawning irrelevant (to him) things like
smbd and winbindd.
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Michael Wood <esiot...@gmail.com>
