Samba not running as AD DC

Question

I am trying to set up my Debian box as an active directory domain controller using Samba 4.5. After going through samba-tool domain provision --use-rfc2307 --interactive the Samba service does not start and issuing systemctl start samba says that samba service is masked and systemctl unmask samba does nothing, the service is still masked afterwards.

According to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=837679 then the masking of the Samba service is by design but as I understand it then after provisioning the server as AD DC then that service should be unmasked but it does not happen for me and I am wondering why? And as I understand it then that service needs to be running to run all the other services that are needed so my clients can find the server as a DC and hook up to the domain which they are not doing now.

Here is my smb.conf if that helps

# Global parameters
[global]
        netbios name = SERVER
        realm = SERVER.DOMAIN.LAN
        workgroup = DOMAIN
        dns forwarder = 192.168.168.1
        server role = active directory domain controller
        idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes

[netlogon]
        path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol/server.domain.lan/scripts
        read only = No

[sysvol]
        path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol
        read only = No

My final aim is to use this server as AD DC, file server and email server but will settle for AD DC to begin with as a starting point :-)

Solution

The name of the service in Samba 4 after provisionning is "samba-ad-dc"

You can try to mask first the old services and start the new one:

#systemctl stop smbd nmbd winbind
#systemctl disable smbd nmbd winbind
#systemctl unmask samba-ad-dc
Removed /etc/systemd/system/samba-ad-dc.service
#systemctl start samba-ad-dc
#systemctl status samba-ad-dc

Comments

[ojs]

Thanks for that, this got Samba service up and running, still have problems and will make new questions out of those.