Installing Samba4 As An Active Directory Domain Controller On CentOS 6
With the last version of samba 4 comes with Active directory logon and administration protocols, including typical active directory support and full interoperability with Microsoft Active Directory servers. This is possible with the combination of a LDAP directory, kerberos authentication, BIND DNS server and the remote procedure calls RPC. When running as an Active Directory DC, you only need to run 'samba' (not smbd/nmbd/winbindd), as the required services are co-coordinated by this master binary. The tool to administer the Active Directory services is called 'samba-tool'. I have a CentOS 6 x86_64 Minimal install. This post covers the initial installation and configuration of samba 4 as Active Directory domain controller on Centos 6 using BIND 9 as DNS backend and NTP server used by the clients. 1) Disable SELinux [root@ad ~]# vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux selinux=disabled 2) Install the ...