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Tutorial : Building Active Directory Server, Domain Controller & File Server with Excellent Samba 4 Appliance-Part 2

October 20, 2012

Previous Article : Tutorial : Building Active Directory Server, Domain Controller & File Server with Excellent Samba 4 Appliance-Part 1

Excellent Samba 4 Appliance has many benefit to simplify active directory serverdeployment using Samba 4. Excellent Samba 4 appliance built with the following target :

  1. Create minimum appliance based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP2 (can also be built with openSUSE variant)
  2. Include all required dependency file, especially for Samba4 compilation process
  3. Automatically compile Samba 4 binary and install it into /usr/local/samba
  4. Include Windows Administrative Tools for Windows XP and Windows 7
  5. Include a script for Samba 4 provisioning by asking some parameters

vavai-excellent-samba4

Using script has some benefits over manual install :

  1. Can be done several times with different parameters
  2. Avoid typos
  3. Reduced setup time
  4. By pass manual process, suitable for newbie that unfamiliar with manual configuration

All scripts are included in Excellent Samba 4 Appliance since version 0.9.1. The script is located in the folder / srv/v and to run it simply typing the following command:

1.cd /srv/v
2../dcpromo.sh

or for Bahasa Indonesia :

1.cd /srv/v
2../dcpromo.excellent

Note : Sorry for some minor typo on the script

vavai-excellent-samba4-script1

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After running the script, Samba 4 active directory server should be successfully implemented. Use Windows XP or Windows 7, modify it’s DNS configuration to use Samba 4 server as primary DNS, configure correct date & time and then try to joining your Windows client into Samba 4 Active Directory.

vavai-samba4-join-domain

vavai-windows-samba4-logon-domain

After joining client, install Windows Administrative tools available on http://samba4-ip-address (ex ; http://192.168.1.212). Windows administrative tools can be used for Active Directory management, including add/remove user, create organization unit, delegate control and implement Group Policy Object (GPO)

vavai-excellent-samba4-dsa1

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Masim "Vavai" Sugianto
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February 5, 2014 at 13:16
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Ness
June 30, 2014 at 17:30
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Not working, reply howto step-by-step on my server, no errors, but clients can’t join domain. Says check that DNS servers is working, but ping by IP and by name is success.



Henrique Ulbrich
November 24, 2015 at 01:25
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I have a question. How can I configure a second DC with Excellent Samba 4 and join it to an existing AD structure?



Gonzalo Martinez
January 3, 2016 at 12:02
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Hello, how can I change de DNS Forwarder IP?

I already have a DNS with lot of records, and I want the DC internal DNS to forward queries to it.

Thanks in advance.



jonh
December 18, 2016 at 00:55
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it is a good tutorial very helpul



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