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David Spigelman - Mon, 2025/03/10 - 15:27
I'm trying to install the Samba DC and I'm really struggling to install it. I tried installing it on an actual PC, and after the installation, on the first boot, it started hanging trying to bring up something on /sdb. I'm not sure why it's trying to do that, because there IS no sdb on this machine. But it keeps waiting for 1:30 to sort of try again, at least twice, and then it just dies. So it won't boot that way.
So then I tried putting it into a VM on a Linux box running VirtualBox. Now I've put a bunch of TK appliances on VirtualBox. But this one won't boot because it says it can't find an x86/amd processor, and that I need the i686 version to run it.
Is there an i686 version of this? Is there something else I need for this? What do I do?
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This next part is more of a configuration question about this DC appliance. I've done the basic configuration, but there doesn't seem to be a DNS server integrated with the appliance, as there usually is with an actual Windows DC. So when I'm trying to join a computer to the domain, it can't find the domain to join. The instructions I was able to find here, seem to gloss over that point, with instructions on how to use
samba-toolto create a zone, but... it doesn't really work, and I can't follow all the instructions because there's just no DNS entry for the server. It also seems like this only helps get the server set up as a BDC, as it were, not a PDC, which is what I'm really trying to do with it. I looked at the Samba Wiki page about this, but seems to distinguish between Samba servers provisioned usingSAMBA_INTERNALor not. I have no idea whether this was or not. And if not, it discusses how to install a BIND server. Do I need to add BIND to this thing to make it work, or have an otherwise-configured DNS server or something? What am I missing?Add new comment