Samba 4 Active Directory Domain Controller on Ubuntu 20.04 Server
This post will detail how to setup a pair of active directory domain controllers using Samba 4 on Ubuntu 20.04 Server. One will be a primary domain controller and the other will be a backup domain controller. This provides redundancy incase one server has to go down for updates. Pre-Requisites Two independent linux servers, this guide will use Ubuntu 20.04 Server. A domain name, sometimes called a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Network Configuration You should configure these as static IP addresses on your router. Hostname Domain IP Address dc1 ad.ifsg.ca 192.168.2.10 dc2 ad.ifsg.ca 192.168.2.11 Setup the Primary Domain Controller This is broken up into pre-configuration of the server, installation and post-installation configuration. Pre-configuration of the server Set the hostname of ...