On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 10:53 -0800, Gregory Sloop wrote: > I'm aware of, at least generally, how one would have done a > BDC/Redundant server under OpenLDAP Samba3. > However, rolling your own multi-domain-controller was fairly daunting > [for me] under Samba3 / OpenLDAP.
Yea... that is an understatement. Replication... OpenLDAP... <shivers/>. It was rough, and then they switched to cn=config. Never bothered to make a single administrative tool worth @&^@*&@ and that-one-developer harassed and insulted and was a general @&*%^@*$ to anyone who tried [including me] - tools are for whimps! [and, you know, people who have stuff to do, those whimps!]. Sad, OpenLDAP is a really great project/product. > I've been very interested in Samba4 for the more integrated nature of > having LDAP/DNS/Samba all under one roof. [i.e. Fewer places where I > can screw it up horribly.] Yep, it does that. Yay! Or you can look at it as one-stop horrible screw up; kill it, and you kill everything. > However I'm also interested in how one can handle fail-over. I don't > need something totally seamless and "big-iron" style. A backup box > that would need some manual intervention would be fine. > So, something like an rsync'd backup box where the shared > files/accounts/etc are perhaps an hour out of date, and that would > require 15 minutes to bring up as a primary would be an acceptable > solution. It does hot-replication of the SAM (at least). In theory it does replication of DNS [if you are using internal DNS] but there might be some bugs there. It doesn't replicate the sysvol [yet], you gotta do that yourself, old-school. > That's not to say I wouldn't want something better, but that's kind of > the low end of the "acceptable" scale. It is above your acceptable out-of-the-box. > I've done some searches on the list and spent a while looking for > "examples" but I don't easily find any. [Using searches with: samba4 bdc, > redundant, backup, etc. There are a ton of very old articles on the > list, but almost nothing I could find specifically on Samba4.] Create a DC, add a another DC, done. Move on. > Could some kind soul point me either to: > 1) Search terms more likely to produce results, or some discussion threads or > 2) wiki/how-to's on how to accomplish something i the neighborhood on this > subjet? > [Option #2 preferred.] The Samba4 wiki! <http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4> And you need to read up on Active Directory. > As a note, I'd be glad to help document this/provide a "here's what I > did and how", provided it's something reasonable for me to apply to > the situation I'm referring to - so I'm more than glad to contribute > back where I can. Create an account on the wiki. -- Adam Tauno Williams GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba