[Fwd: samba3-3.3.4-39 not joining to ADS]

[Rajeesh Kumar]

Thanks a lot. I'm able to Join now, by removing the domain name.

Regards,
Rajeesh
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 13:41 +0200, Andreas Schneider wrote:

> On Monday 25 May 2009 08:31:22 Rajeesh Kumar wrote:
> > I'm unable to connect to ADS after upgrading to Samba 3.3..3.  This was
> > working fine earlier.
> 
> I think the way you use the net binary worked with *older* Windows versions.
> 
> >
> > I'm getting error message "failed to connect to AD: Malformed
> > representation of principal" while joining domain.
> >
> > [root at pstand2 etc]#  net ads  join -U blr.admin at HCLT.CORP.HCL.IN -d1
> 
> -U expects normally only the username name, without the domain name. I guess 
> it worked with older Windows server version but since Windows 2008 we have to 
> guess the realm and append it to the username.
> 
> To specify the domain you should use -W or don't use it if you join the same 
> domain.
> 
> I'm not able to test this anymore.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	-- andreas
> 
> 


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