Oh dear,

The Red Hat guide says:

"Red Hat does not support running Samba as an AD domain controller (DC)."

If RHEL 8.1 does not support running Samba as an AD domain controller (DC), will CentOS 8.1 support running Samba as an AD domain controller (DC)?

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 21:49, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming teo.en.ming.smartphone@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

The guide which you have shared looks very detailed.

I have also found another guide at samba.org but not very sure whether it is good.

Title: Setting up Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller

Link: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Dom...

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 21:39, Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com wrote:

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:32 PM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < teo.en.ming.smartphone@gmail.com> wrote:

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Good evening from Singapore,

Can I configure CentOS 8.1 1911 as an Active Directory Domain Controller like a Windows Server?

Are there any good guides or tutorials on how to do this?

Thank you very much.

I would start here: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/htm...

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Thanks for the Ubuntu guide!

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 at 21:57, Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 2:50 PM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming < teo.en.ming.smartphone@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

The guide which you have shared looks very detailed.

I have also found another guide at samba.org but not very sure whether it is good.

Title: Setting up Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller

Link: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Dom...

Take note that on the link I provided there is the statement that it is not supported (on Red Hat) with the role of AD DC. I don't know if it is more a limitation for support effort by Red Hat or at all, also because here you can find a note for Ubuntu where it states it does support that role on Samba4: https://www.tecmint.com/install-samba4-active-directory-ubuntu/

So if you are "forced" to use CentOS you can try to inter-mix the information provided by the two links and see if it works. Gianluca _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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On Wed, 22 Jan 2020, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:

Hi,

Thank you for your prompt reply.

The guide which you have shared looks very detailed.

I have also found another guide at samba.org but not very sure whether it is good.

Title: Setting up Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller

Link: https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_an_Active_Directory_Dom...

On Centos 7 I use the above link which also should work on 8. If you want to build rpms, there is also https://github.com/nkadel?tab=repositories

I am not aware of any pre-build rpms for a DC on Centos 8 but there are some for Centos 7 but I have never used them.

Red Hat has stated they will not support a Samba DC on RHEL therefore it will not be supported on Samba.

I would also suggest subscribing to the Samba users mailing list @ samba.org as the people there are very good at supporting Samba as a DC.

My one warning to you is unless you wish to inflict large amounts of pain on yourself do not build Samba using MIT Kerberos. It is unmaintained and unsupported by the Samba Team or anyone else that I am aware of.

Regards,