How to Install and Manage Samba Active Directory in Ubuntu Linux

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• I would like to know how can I set disk quotas for the mapped network drives? It seems like File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) is not working even if I connect it to DC1 using MMC. The problems occurs since it pops out the error "RPC server is unavailable on computer DC1."?

  Worst case scenario, is there a way to set disk quota for the existing mapped network drives without the use of File Server Resource Manager (FSRM)?

• Good job 👍

• hello sir what ubuntu version you use.

• The challenge will be to get roaming profiles working if you login to the AD from a Windows, Linux or Mac computer and also assigning mapped drives/shares.
  Im trying to do some centralization at home so it will be a little bit easier with the accounts and stuff.

  To be able to use a Linux server instead of a resource heavy windows server is a bonus!

• This is a great tutorial.
  I have a question. I run a standard Samba Server on a separate VM, and it is simply too much data to move and access to disrupt.
  Do you have instructions to point the "AD-Samba-Server1" to the "Standard-Samba-Server2"?

• i gave in and just redid it now i my issue is everytime i reboot or shutdown the resolv.conf gets completely deleted and i have not been able to find out how to resolve this

• is there a way to rename without having to redo the hole thing. i made the mistake as to using my Domain and now i cant access my websites from my internal network i wanted to change the AD domain to .local without having to redo everything

• Can we add Ubuntu PC's to this

• Amazing, the cheapest way to install and managing DC and AD, a couple of Windows licenses, free Ubuntu server, free VirtualBox and free static IP address using for example ZeroTier-like solutions, and that's it! Thank you for sharing!!

• Great job, Sir! That was the only one tutorial about Samba AD that worked for me 100%. I'am glad you covered both sides (server and client). Thank you very much!

• so far so good: a solly question: this message during the install log : "Unable to determine the DomainSID, can not enforce uniqueness constraint on local domainSIDs " do that mean trouble for the future?

  Update:
  netstat -antp | grep 'smbd|samba'
  
  shows nothing .
  i guess your guide needs an update. 🙁

• whne try to connect i am not able to connect its error
  Note: This information is intended for a network administrator. If you are not your network's administrator, notify the administrator that you received this information, which has been recorded in the file C:Windowsdebugdcdiag.txt.

  The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate an Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) for domain "bighome.com":

  The error was: "DNS name does not exist."
  
  (error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)

  The query was for the SRV record for ldap._tcp.dc.msdcs.bighome.com
  

  Common causes of this error include the following:

  – The DNS SRV records required to locate a AD DC for the domain are not registered in DNS. These records are registered with a DNS server automatically when a AD DC is added to a domain. They are updated by the AD DC at set intervals. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the following IP addresses:

  192.168.29.5
  

  – One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its child zone:

  bighome.com
  
  com
  
  . (the root zone)

  using OS ubuntu server 22.04LTS
  virtualbox with static ip of 192.168.29.10/24
  in same network i am trying to connect in 1st time asked me to login whne i enter username and password its shows above error
  help me to relove

• root@dc1:~# systemctl enable -now samba-ad-dc.service
  
  Failed to parse lines 'ow'

  help me

• Are you on Bridge mode to do this? I'm having some issues mainly regarding network connection… The Network option also doesn't appear to me on Virtualbox Preferences
  (I'm also using two Network interfaces, cuz I wanna the server to act both as Squid and Samba… Dunno if that's of any relevance)

  Well, basically, the issue i'm facing is: I'm losing internet connection like u said, if I set a default gateaway on netplan config. file. Thus, I didn't set a gateway, and am using my Testserver (yep, right now I'm just doing tests to see if i can implement Samba AD). So, I didn't set the gateway, and let interface 1 work as NAT/DHCP, and set interface 2 as static and added my IP and Google's IP as DNS servers, like you did.

  Will I have any issue ahead if I leave things as they're?

• This is a good video

• Thank you so much for your support.👌👌

• great tutorial Sir, Thank you so much

• I tried this but I couldn't login with Administrator account. I followed your video step by step but somehow I can't find out why can't I login. Could you help me?
  
  Though I can join the domain.

• what button did you press for column??

• Hi, my /etc/resolv.conf keeps getting deleted after every restart of my machine, after i stopped the systemd-resolverd.service how i can fix it?

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