Samba 4 is a brand new software that was released in 2013 and is already pretty stable and as we are learning, full of features. However, as this is a new release, there are many challenges and some of its components need to evolve. At the time of writing this book, the SysVol share has no replication currently implemented [3], and a workaround needs to be used to replicate the changes [4]. Trust relationships are not fully implemented, and as a result, Samba 4 can be trusted but it cannot trust [4].

All the directory replications are already implemented and fully functional. We will add another Domain Controller to our Debian 7 GNU/Linux Samba 4 Server AD DC, and verify if the replication of users, groups, and our GPO is properly synced.

To add our Microsoft Windows Server 2008 as an additional Domain...