Installing and Using Cockpit 138 on CentOS 7.1611

I was looking at Fedora Server for a possible Samba Active Directory production server.   But Fedora has a short life cycle for me to use it in Samba AD production server. "Fedora Server is a short-lifecycle, community-supported server operating system that enables seasoned system administrators experienced with any OS to make use of the very …

Samba 4.6.5 Active Directory with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server – Making File Shares with Windows ACLs

Using Samba 4.6.4 AD DC on the server domain controller itself, and using Windows ACLs to control the share and the security. Pre Making-a-Share on the Domain Controller: Make sure Samba was compiled with ACL support. Check with the following command: $ smbd -b | grep HAVE_LIBACL HAVE_LIBACL If "HAVE_LIBACL" is not found, then Samba …

Demoting a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS DC Server from a Samba 4.6.5 Active Directory

Make sure your domain controller you want to demote has no FSMO roles.  There are 7 FSMO roles and to check them use this: samba-tool fsmo show If it does have any FSMO roles, using the DC you want to leave working as a DC, transfer to them to active domain controller: samba-tool fsmo transfer …

Joining a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS DC to Samba 4.6.5 Active Directory

Joining a Ubuntu Server DC to existing Samba AD DC directory is quite like building a AD DC but a little bit different at the end, namely joining and instead of building a AD DC. Here are my directions to building a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server that I used for this post. Note: When installing Ubuntu …

Installing Samba 4.6.5 Active Directory on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Server

Starting with Samba 4.6.0 AD, it allows for the latest Windows 10 to see the netlogon and sysvol share. Note: When installing Ubuntu server I would recommend you also install openSSH Server with default Standard System Utilities in the Software Installation page. However do not install Samba File Server; if you do do an " apt …