AD Samba4

Samba 4 Active Directory DC

Installing Samba 4 onto CentOS

• Install a minimal install of CentOS
• change the hostname

hostname sambatest

• manually edit or add network-scripts if not there

cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
vi ifcfg-eth0

• Make sure these options are included

DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=**:**:**:**:**:**
TYPE=ETHERNET
ONBOOT=yes
NM_CONTROLLED=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

• restart the network

service network restart

• run yum update
• install vim or an editor of your choice, vi comes included with minimal
• SELinux must be disabled:

vim /etc/sysconfig/selinux

• change "SELINUX=enforcing" to "SELINUX=disabled"
• restart the computer

shutdown -r now

• install a couple packages that will be required for building and installing samba

yum install glibc glibc-devel gcc python* libacl-devel krb5-server krb5-workstation krb5-libs pam_krb5 make gnutls-devel openssl-devel bind bind-libs bind-utils

• install git, git will be used to download samba

yum install git-core
git clone http://gitweb.samba.org/samba.git ~/samba-master

• reboot server so all packages and updates are applied

shutdown -r now

• login and build the samba install

cd ~/samba-master
./configure --enable-debug --enable-selftest

• if it completes successfully

make
make install

Enabling Samba 4 as DC

• run command

/usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool domain provision

• the domain-provision tool should pick all defaults automatically, however they can be changed to your liking
• once the provision tool has finished successfully restart the server

shutdown -r now

• once system has started enable samba 4 and add it start at boot

/usr/local/samba/sbin/samba
cd /etc/rc.d/
vim rc.local

• append "/usr/local/samba/sbin/samba" without quotations to the end of the file and then save