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Samba in CentOS 6.8 as Secondary DC with Microsoft Active Directory 2012R2

1 . https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10265
It’s necessary to manually lower the domain and forest functional levels on the Windows 2012 server first, via Powershell:
Set-ADForestMode -Identity “mydom.local” -ForestMode Windows2008R2Forest
Set-ADDomainMode -Identity “mydom.local” -DomainMode Windows2008R2Domain
2. Need a fresh installed minimal CentOS 6.x OS . Disable SELinux and firewall . Update software packages .
Please check above notes and do as it is . Lets start ,
Primary AD ( Microsoft ) : 192.168.1.10 / ad.rmohan.com
Secondary DC (CentOS ) : 192.168.1.11 / ldap.rmohan.com
Login to Linux server ,
# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search rmohan.com
nameserver 192.168.1.10
nameserver 192.168.1.11
# yum groupinstall “development tools” -y
# yum install python-devel libgnutls-dev gnutls-devel libacl1-dev libacl-devel libldap2-dev openldap-devel wget gcc gcc-c++ krb5-server krb5-workstation -y
# wget https://download.samba.org/pub/samba/stable/samba-4.5.0.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf samba-4.5.0.tar.gz
# cd samba-4.5.0
# ./configure
# make
# make install
Now we successfully compiled Samba source package . We need to remove default samba configuration first then remount file system ( Some times AD join will popup an ACL error ) .
# rm -rf /usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf
# mount -o remount,acl,user_xattr /dev/mapper/vg_ldap-lv_root
Now we are ready to add our Linux machine to Windows AD .
# /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool domain join rmohan.com DC -Uadministrator –realm=rmohan.com
Now we successfully added our linux system to Active directory as a Secondary DC . But we need to configure some more settings . Lets check authentication .
Before that check both systems time (NTP) . If its not same authentication will get error .
# yum install ntp -y
# service ntpd start
# chkconfig ntpd on
Add Our primary DC as NTP server .
# vi /etc/ntp.conf
server ad.rmohan.com iburst
# service ntpd restart
Now we need to change Kerberos configuration file .
# rm -rf /etc/krb5.conf
# cp -vr /usr/local/samba/private/krb5.conf /etc/krb5.conf
# kinit administrator@rmohan.com
# klist
For successful AD replication we need to Add A record and CNAME record in Microsoft AD .
# /usr/local/samba/bin/ldbsearch -H /usr/local/samba/private/sam.ldb ‘(invocationid=*)’ –cross-ncs objectguid
# record 1
dn: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=LDAP,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=example,DC=com
objectGUID: 640bcd46-cbc3-4451-8d82-cb37a255cbe1
# record 2
dn: CN=NTDS Settings,CN=AD,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=example,DC=com
objectGUID: 89f017ee-dacf-4d51-a19b-fe54da97a79a

Copy that ObjectGUID and goto Microsoft Active directory .
First create A record for ldap.rmohan.com .
Then goto Forward Lookup Zone > _msdcs.rmohan.com .
Create a CNAME here with our host objectGUID . In my case it is like below ,

640bcd46-cbc3-4451-8d82-cb37a255cbe1 Alias(CNAME) ldap.rmohan.com
Now authentication is working fine .Now we need to start DC replication . Every user created by master or slave need to replicated .
# /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba
# /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool drs showrepl
Default-First-Site-Name\LDAP
DSA Options: 0x00000001
DSA object GUID: 640bcd46-cbc3-4451-8d82-cb37a255cbe1
DSA invocationId: 4c115875-28b5-4c91-bcf0-66f4d74d935b
==== INBOUND NEIGHBORS ====
DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=example,DC=com
Default-First-Site-Name\AD01 via RPC
DSA object GUID: 89f017ee-dacf-4d51-a19b-fe54da97a79a
Last attempt @ Tue Oct 11 03:13:07 2016 EDT was successful
0 consecutive failure(s).
Last success @ Tue Oct 11 03:13:07 2016 EDT
Now we can see that replication is working fine . Lets check now ,
List all AD users.
# /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool user list
Create new user in Active directory and check again . If its showing all is good. Your secondary server is ready to go .
List all member computers .
# /usr/local/samba/bin/pdbedit -L -w | grep ‘\[[WI]’

This setup is very useful if you have single windows license and you need Active Directory replica . This is for you .
Enjoy .

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