When we are planning to implement a Samba 4 Server, one point to have in mind is to determine the role that this new server will play on our network. Samba 4 has many server roles, and these roles are tied to one of these two options:
The NT4-like domain operation mode from Samba 3
The Active Directory Services mode from new Samba 4
Looking at the documentation of the Samba 4 software, we can have a detailed explanation of each role, and we will briefly describe it in the following list:
Auto: This is the default, and if we use this option (
server role = auto) at the command-line tool (for example,samba-tool), we are actually telling Samba to follow the configuration specified on thesecuritysetting of thesmb.conffile (for example,/usr/local/samba/etc/smb.conf).Standalone: This is an operation mode that can be selected in the following two ways:
Explicitly using
server role = standaloneon the command lineLeaving
server...