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Support #386

Samba 4 Domain Controller on FreeBSD

Added by Daniel Curtis over 10 years ago. Updated almost 9 years ago.

Status:

Closed

Priority:

Normal

Assignee:

Daniel Curtis

Category:

Domain Controller

Target version:

FreeBSD 9

Start date:

05/03/2014

Due date:

% Done:

100%

Estimated time:

3.00 h

Spent time:

10.00 h

Description

This is a guide how I installed Samba4 and got it working as a replacement for AD domain controllers on FreeBSD 9.

Here’s the overview of the network:

DC1: dc01.example.com 192.168.1.254
DC2: dc02.example.com 192.168.1.253
Router: 192.168.1.1
Domain: example.com

Preparing the Environment¶

First of all, Samba4 is really bleeding edge at the time of this writing, so you’ll want to make sure pkg is up to date:
```
pkg update && pkg upgrade
```

Now Samba4 requires ACL’s to be enabled on the file system. Wherever you’ve installed the Samba4 data is the partition you’ll need to add ACL’s. This example is the bare bones simple install of /swap and /
```
edit /etc/fstab
```
- Add the acls option to the / partition:
```
# Device        Mountpoint      FStype  Options Dump    Pass#
/dev/ada0p2     /               ufs     rw,acls 1       1
/dev/ada0p3     none            swap    sw      0       0
```
- NOTE: If installing in a jail, make sure to add the acls option to the host fstab and not the jail fstab.

Since I don’t feel like rebooting my system to apply it, I’ll simply remount the partition:
```
mount -o acls /
```

You will also need to update your resolv.conf file to reflect the domain:

edit /etc/resolv.conf

Here’s an example of what it should look like:

# Generated by resolvconf
search EXAMPLE.COM
domain example.com
nameserver 192.168.1.254
nameserver 192.168.1.253
nameserver 192.168.1.1 #Fallback DNS IP

Installing Samba4¶

Install Samba4:
```
pkg install samba4
```

Now let’s provision Samba4 as a Domain Controller:
```
/usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307 --interactive
```
- Realm: example.com
- Domain [example]: example
- Server Role (dc, member, standalone) [dc]: dc
- DNS backend (SAMBA_INTERNAL, BIND9_FLATFILE, BIND9_DLZ, NONE) [SAMBA_INTERNAL]: SAMBA_INTERNAL
- DNS forwarder IP address (write 'none' to disable forwarding): 192.168.1.1
- Administrator password: SuperSecretPassword
- Retype password: SuperSecretPassword

Add the following line to the [global] section of /usr/local/etc/smb4.conf:
```
[global]
nsupdate command = /usr/local/bin/samba-nsupdate -g
```

Start and enable Samba to start at boot:

echo 'samba_server_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf
service samba_server start

Testing Samba4¶

First let’s run this to test the domain:

/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L localhost -U%

You should see output for your domain. Now let’s test the administrative login:
```
/usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient //localhost/netlogon -UAdministrator -c 'ls'
```