Samba4 Active directory project for docker with SSH installed.

Build the docker image:

docker build -t yourimage.

When starting the image for the first time, some additional parameters are required to configure the Active Directory domain controller:

docker run 
        --privileged 
        -h pdc 
        -v ${PWD}/samba:/var/lib/samba 
        -v ${PWD}/samba:/etc/samba 
        -e SAMBA_REALM="test.local" 
        -e SAMBA_DOMAIN="test" 
        -e ROOT_PASSWORD="<yourpassword>" 
        -e SAMBA_ADMIN_PASSWORD="<yourpassword>" 
        -e SAMBA_DNS_FORWARDER="8.8.8.8" 
        --name dc1 
        --dns-search=test.local 
        --dns=127.0.0.1 
        --net=dvv 
       --ip=<your-fixed-ip-address> 
        -d yourimage

You can omit the two password environment variables. The init script will generate random passwords and display the passwords in the docker logs.

The volume parameters (-v) can be used to store the configuration of samba and the ldap database. You can also use a data container to persist the data.

If you want the domain controller to be accessible to the outside world you can export the ports mentioned in the Dockerfile. Note: I don't use it that way. I connect to the docker host using an openvpn connection. This gives the clients access to the domain controller without exposing the ports on the docker host.

• SAMBA_REALM: the actual domain name
• SAMBA_DOMAIN: the short domain name used by samba
• SAMBA_ADMIN_PASSWORD: (optional) the password used to administer the domain controller.
• ROOT_PASSWORD: (optional) the password for the root user
• SAMBA_DNS_FORWARDER: (optional) ip-address of DNS-server used for forwarding