-- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, ISBN: 0131453556 Samba-3 by Example, ISBN: 0131472216 Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production.
Chapter 7. Name Resolution and Browsing - Samba domain master. If Samba is the primary domain controller for your workgroup or NT domain, it should also be made the domain master browser. The domain master browser is a special machine that has the NetBIOS resource type <1B> and is used to propagate browse lists to and from each local master browser in individual subnets across the domain. Samba - Domain Controller | Server documentation | Ubuntu As a Domain Controller A Samba server can be configured to appear as a Windows NT4-style domain controller. A major advantage of this configuration is the ability to centralize user and machine credentials. Samba can also use multiple backends to store the user information.
How to Set Up a Samba Server on Debian 10 Buster
Early versions of samba-tool had a bug that prevented the seizure of the Domain Naming Master role. If you encounter this problem in your version, add the "--force" parameter as a temporary workaround. You should upgrade to a supported Samba version as soon as possible. Windows FSMO Role Management
Configure Samba to use domain accounts for authentication
# smbclient //`hostname`/share -U EXAMPLE\\aduser%testing123 Domain=[EXAMPLE] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.6.23-24.el6_7] smb: \> ls . D 0 Fri Mar 25 03:23:34 2016 .. DR 0 Fri Mar 25 03:23:12 2016 a.txt 0 Fri Mar 25 03:23:34 2016 34300 blocks of size 262144. 27613 … Create a Shared Directory on Samba AD DC and Map to