AD Samba4 Centos 7

Purpose

The purpose of this wiki page is to document the steps needed to set up or recreate an Active Directory(AD) Environment using Samba 4. Not all features of a Windows Server AD are incorporated into Samba 4. At the time of writing/editing the current version of Samba 4 being used is: 4.1.16

This page serves to show how to Setup Samba 4 on a Centos 7 machine and migrate over from Centos 6.

Current operating system Samba 4 is run on: Centos 7

• Note: Until this message removed consider the following a work in progress

Samba 4 Active Directory Domain Controller

Install CentOS

• Install a minimal version of Centos 7 on a VM or dev box

Samba 4 Requirements

• Here is a minimal list of packages needed to compile Samba 4 with AD support

yum install perl gcc libacl-devel libblkid-devel gnutls-devel \
>    readline-devel python-devel gdb pkgconfig krb5-workstation \
>    zlib-devel setroubleshoot-server libaio-devel \
>    setroubleshoot-plugins policycoreutils-python \
>    libsemanage-python setools-libs-python setools-libs \
>    popt-devel libpcap-devel sqlite-devel libidn-devel \
>    libxml2-devel libacl-devel libsepol-devel libattr-devel \
>    keyutils-libs-devel cyrus-sasl-devel cups-devel bind-utils \
>    libxslt docbook-style-xsl openldap-devel pam-devel

• Here are optional packages that are used in this guide

yum install vim wget

Installing Samba

• For stable Samba version visit: http://www.samba.org/
• or(as of 02-18-15):

wget http://www.samba.org/samba/ftp/stable/samba-4.1.16.tar.gz

• Extract the archive if not done so already

tar -zxvf samba-4.1.16.tar.gz
cd ~/samba-4.1.16
./configure --enable-debug --enable-selftest --with-ads --with-systemd

• If it completes successfully, make sure it is Building with Active Directory support, if not you may have forgotten a few packages
• Finally compile and then install

make
make install