Samba4 on Ubuntu Intrepid

Here's a brief rundown of my experiences with Samba4 on Ubuntu Intrepid.

I first tried the samba4 package in the ubuntu intrepid repositories, but when you do a

./setup/provision --realm=azulogic.com --domain=azulogic --adminpass=fubar --server-role='domain controller'

you get a python stackdump with

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/etc/samba/smb.conf'

I tried creating a "/usr/etc/samba" folder (though the distaste was high), but then proceeded to get further file path errors.

So, next I switched to the Debian Experimental package. This worked much better.

After you apt-get install the package, you'll have to fixup /etc/init.d/samba4 - it's still looking for smbd (the samba3 daemon), whereas in samba4 its now /usr/sbin/samba.

So, I just did a

ln -s /usr/sbin/samba /usr/sbin/smbd

to get it to work.

After getting krb5, dns, and samba ready to go, I tried to join a linux machine running winbind 2:3.2.3-1ubuntu3 to the domain. No luck though:

(~) net ads join -U Administrator
Enter Administrator's password:
Failed to join domain: failed to lookup DC info for domain 'AZULOGIC.COM' over rpc: NT_STATUS_INTERNAL_ERROR

How do you fix this? One way is to run in the "single" process model mode. I changed /etc/init.d/samba4 to launch the samba daemon with -M single. Then you see a nice:

(~) net ads join -U Administrator
Enter Administrator's password:
Using short domain name -- AZULOGIC
Joined 'LTS' to realm 'azulogic.com

One final note: as far as I can tell the debian version (4.0.0alpha6-GIT-7fb9007) crashes when someone tries to do a change password. So beware!