Excellent Samba4 Appliance
Excellent Samba4 Appliance 1.0.4 based on SLES 11 SP2 64 bit with Samba4 Stable 4.0.4. Samba4 is a massive reworking of the Samba 3 implementation, with a goal of providing full Active Directory, domain controller and file server support for all current Windows clients.
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Media
USB & disk image
This is an image of your disk, ready to be written to either a USB drive or your hard disk. When written, it will erase all data on a disk. During the first boot, your partition will be automatically resized to fill available space.
ISO image
Burn this ISO file to a DVD (or CD, if the space allows), and you'll be able to boot directly from the disc.
Preload ISO
A bootable ISO containing the appliance disk image. Boots into a simple graphical environment and prompts for confirmation before writing the image onto the hard drive. Useful for performing automated system installs/preloads.
Warning: Overwrites all data on the target hard drive.
Virtual
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
The OVF format is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances. It is not tied to any particular hypervisor or system architecture.
VMware / VirtualBox / KVM image
Whether you use VMware, VirtualBox, or KVM, this vmdk is a ready-to-use virtual appliance.
Virtual Hard Disk
This image includes special extensions to run on Microsoft Hyper-V Server or Windows Virtual PC.
Release notes
Minor update :
- Using latest Samba binary : 1.0.4
- Modify script to resolve bug related winbind (using lib64 instead of lib)
Changelog
80 dependencies updated
1 file removed
1 file updated
1 new file
Build configuration updated
Script configuration updated
Technical Details
Appliance configuration
Accounts
| User | Password |
|---|---|
| root | opensuse |
| vavai | opensuse |
Basic settings
| Keyboard: | english-us |
|---|---|
| Time zone: | Asia/Jakarta |
| Language: | en_US.UTF-8 |
| Network: | ask_on_first_boot |
| Firewall: | disabled |
Software
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Security summary
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Includes the following unofficial sources:
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No custom software packages were uploaded.
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A boot script is included.
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No supportability issues found. SUSE would be glad to support this appliance.
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Nice Work om Vavai :D
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Hi,
Sorry I know this is a noob problem. I’m stuck at Stage 1 not responding at all or am I being impatient? I’m using virtualbox, network adapter is on NAT.
Thanks!
Hi. We have a Samba4 AD (from other provider) working for some weeks. ¿Is there some manual to install yours as a BDC?. I want to migrate mine to this one.
Guys, is SWAT included yet ?
Does it have appdata
Hi,
Would it be possible to make a version with Desktop features enabled.
Cheers
J
Hi,
Something is not setting up bind or the samba dns settings properly.
DNS fails to start with :
Jan 28 12:28:38 linux named2473: Loading ‘AD DNS Zone’ using driver dlopen
/usr/local/samba/private/dns/sam.ldb the dns directory and sam.ldb are missing – which causes bind to fail and no workstation can find the domain controller.Jan 28 12:28:38 linux named2473: samba_dlz: Failed to connect to /usr/local/samba/private/dns/sam.ldb
Jan 28 12:28:38 linux named2473: dlz_dlopen of ‘AD DNS Zone’ failed
Jan 28 12:28:38 linux named2473: SDLZ driver failed to load.
Jan 28 12:28:38 linux named2473: DLZ driver failed to load.
Jan 28 12:28:38 linux named2473: loading configuration: failure
Jan 28 12:28:38 linux named2473: exiting (due to fatal error)
cheers
-A
x2, i copyed the files from …./private to …/private/dns and chmod 777 them all, and still failes, lots of samba_dlz errors.
~B
fixed, forgot to set permissions to files in ./private/dns/sam.ldb.d
Please, tell me more about how you solved this problem.
I can not do it.
Error is the same as yours.
it’s simple.
Need to do a domain such as “example.com” and all will work.
I wanted to make the domain “lan” – do not work.
Works for me at VirtualBox, thanks !
OK, thanks for your information
:D
Is SWAT available in the appliance?
NULL! Can not connect to a user
Hi Jestin,
Could you please tell me the details. What is the image platform you try to test the appliance (preload iso, ovf, etc) and what’s about can not connect to a user? Do you means you can not log on to the appliance or does this means your appliance client can not log on to Samba 4 services?
Vavai vmdk version not working on esxi 4.1,i’m going to try ovf
Hi Hafiz,
Is there any error message? Would you please try the ovf version? Please let me know if you got the problem regarding the appliance
Mas Vavai
Saya sudah berhasil install dan Join domain .
Pertanyaannya
Kenapa waktu login pertama kali lambat sekali dan seakan2 nyantol dimenu “Loading Your personal Setting” ??
Thnaks
Hi mas,
Sorry for a late reply. “Loading your personal setting” usually related to profile on Document and Settings. Is this possible to use new user or another new account to test the appliance?
In grub list when choose anyone (normal or safe) get this error :
“init /boot/initrd.vmx
Error 16: Inconsistent filesystem structure
Press Any key to continue…."
using xen advanced…
how to fix? =)
ty
ps. using ovf file
ps. 0.9.3
i try with iso file and get this error too :
“Boot-Logging enabled on /dev/tty3
……..
[ 17.219981] Couldn´t find live configuration file
[ 17.225236] rebootException: error consoles at Alt-f3/f4
[ 17.230507] rebootException: reboot in 120 sec….”
Hi Marcello Moretti,
Could you please try the version 0.9.4? Also, would you like to give a details about your host and Virtual engine?
I’ve successfully deploy the appliance by using VMWare vSphere (5.0 and 5.1) and also on VirtualBox (on top of openSUSE 12.2 64 bit)
Hi Jose Carlos,
Please make sure you are using version 0.9.2. The script are on /srv/v directory. Please let me know if you have any trouble regarding the script.
Hi,
I installed the image on a virtualbox using the iso as media before burn and use on a real machine.
After installed , rebooted, and i didn´t find the dcpromo.excellent anywhere. i gets your directions above. when i do a find / -name dcpromo returns nothing.
Did i missed something?
Kind regards,
Jose Carlos, from Brazil