SOLVED FreeNAS 11.0 as Samba Domain Controller?

[Ben Smith]

Hi,

I have 9.10.2-U5 running as a samba domain controller. After upgrading I had a few issues getting Windows to connect but they appear to have 'fixed' themselves - odd but not unheard of with Windows

But while I was looking around the forums to see if I'd missed something, I came across this post about using Corral as a Domain controller:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/corral-as-a-domain-controller.52107/

This seems to be suggesting that since there is virtualisation in Corral the DC role should be moved into a virtual machine with FreeNAS defined as a domain member server.

Does this apply to version 11 too? are there any notes/documentation on how this is expected to be setup?

Thanks

 

[m0nkey_]

DC functionality is still available in FreeNAS 11.

http://doc.freenas.org/11/services.html#domain-controller

 

[anodos]

This seems to be suggesting that since there is virtualisation in Corral the DC role should be moved into a virtual machine with Freenas defined as a domain member server.

Corral had all sorts of things. :) As @m0nkey_ stated, samba in FreeNAS 11 can act as an AD DC. I personally run DCs in VMs for a variety of reasons, but I don't use the FreeNAS server as a VM host.

It is probably not a good idea to virtualize the DC in a VM running on the FreeNAS server. This will lead most likely lead to race conditions as the FN server looks for the DC VM before it is available.

 

[Ben Smith]

Thanks both for the replies.

Yes, seems lots of stuff in Corral that hasn't necessarily been continued into version 11 for obvious reasons.

Providing a configuration that would allow the DC to exist within a virtual environment and then later dropping the DC capability in FreeNAS itself sounded like it would result in a configuration more compatible with the Samba team's recommended configuration which was why I thought 11 might be working towards this goal.

Will stick with the existing configuration.