On Wed, 2013-04-03 at 15:05 -0400, Chris Smith wrote: > On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Andrew Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If I could change the subject somewhat, I am also not clear on how to > >> configure SAMBA4 and the DNS server if my network has an existing DNS > >> server on another machine and I don't really want to move it. The DNS > >> server is a stock install of bind from the distro's repository: > >> bind-9.8.2-0.17.rc1.el6_4.4.x86_64 > > > > Samba must locally host it's own DNS domain, on the Samba 4.0 AD DC. > > > > You may wish to have your existing BIND instance forward the Samba 4.0 > > subdomain to Samba using a zone type of 'forward'. > > I've been wondering... > Do the Windows clients, if they aren't sharing anything, actually need > DNS resolution? > Could Samba just host the DNS for the SRV (and other "special") > records as a subdomain and therefore have all queries go to another > DNS server which, for the special subdomain, forwards only those > requests to the Samba server?
That would be a very good way to create confusion and an un-debug-able network. Clients, member servers and DCs register A records, and DCs also register and require SRV records. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
