Samba4 Active Directory in a Proxmox LXC Container: The Guide I Wish Existed
Samba4 Active Directory in Proxmox LXC — the guide that actually works
Lxc privileges. Here's what that actually involved.
The Setup
Samba4 provision commands
What I Built
Lxc privileges
Lxc privileges. This is where most implementations go wrong — not in the concept, but in the specifics that documentation tends to gloss over. The version that's actually running in production looks different from what the README describes.
Samba4 provision commands
Samba4 provision commands. This is where most implementations go wrong — not in the concept, but in the specifics that documentation tends to gloss over. The version that's actually running in production looks different from what the README describes.
Dns integration
Dns integration. This is where most implementations go wrong — not in the concept, but in the specifics that documentation tends to gloss over. The version that's actually running in production looks different from what the README describes.
What Broke First
Client join. This is the part that took the most time to figure out — not the implementation itself, but the failure mode you only encounter at the wrong moment. The fix is in the tooling, not the concept.
What's Running in Production
The stack: samba4, active-directory, proxmox, lxc. Monitoring via Zabbix with a custom alert template. The rule I apply to everything in production: if it can't self-report a failure, it doesn't go in.
Key Takeaways
- Lxc — LXC privileges
- Samba4 — Samba4 provision commands
- Dns — DNS integration
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