KEvin, Thanks for your feedback. I will update the HOWTO pages as suggested.
Cheers, John T. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > I'm nearly finished setting up a new Samba server in a Win2000 ADS > domain. So far, things have been going quite well, the combination of > Samba 3.0.0rc4 (with winbindd), krb5 1.3.1, CUPS 1.1.19, etc. has > performed admirably and was easy to configure. > > I have only three issues to mention: > > - the HOWTO collection, in the section talking about joining an ADS > domain as a member server, does not mention using the "net ads join" > command, rather it uses "net join". This really should be fixed, "net > ads join" produces a much better result. > > - in the same HOWTO, there is mention of creating a krb5.conf file to > tell the krb5 libraries where the KDC for the ADS domain is. With MIT > krb5, this is completely unnecessary, and actually detrimental. All > ADS domains will automatically create SRV records in the DNS zone > _kerberos.REALM.NAME for each KDC in the realm. MIT's krb5 libraries > default to checking for these records, so they will automatically find > the KDCs. In addition, krb5.conf only allows specifying a _single_ > KDC, even there if there is more than one. Using the DNS lookup allows > the krb5 libraries to use whichever KDCs are available. I can't speak > to the Heimdal implementation as I've never seen it, but I'd suggest > modifying the HOWTO to suggest that the krb5.conf file is strictly > optional for users using the MIT krb5 libraries. > > - when setting up some printers, and using driver upload from a > Windows 2000 machine (which all worked as expected), I ended up with > some smbd processes consuming lots and lots of CPU time but not > accomplishing anything. I haven't been able to reliably reproduce the > problem, so I guess this report is not very useful... > > Otherwise, kudos on a wonderful package. I've been an ardent Samba > supporter and user for years now, but this was my first experience > with Samba-3 and ADS. Well done! > > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
