[Samba] How to tell a machine is properly joined to a domain?

[pisymbol .]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:59 PM, pisymbol . <pisymbol at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Denis Cardon <
> denis.cardon at tranquil-it-systems.fr> wrote:
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>> Hi aps,
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>>  I have been using 'net ads testjoin' but the issue is it seems to ask
>>> for a
>>> password when the box is not joined to a domain (even if I specify '-U
>>> username%pass'). This *seems* like a bug - I would expect it to pass or
>>> fail using the creds passed in.
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>>> Is this by design and if so, why? Is there a better alternative? ('net
>>> ads
>>> info'?)
>>>
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>> I think that wbinfo -t should do it. It checks the trust relation ship.
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>> [root at srvfichiers.tranq ~]# wbinfo -t
>> checking the trust secret for domain TRANQUILIT via RPC calls succeeded
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> That relies on winbind though right?
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> $ sudo wbinfo -t
> could not obtain winbind interface details!
> could not obtain winbind domain name!
> checking the trust secret for domain (null) via RPC calls failed
> Could not check secret
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> This box I'm testing on is currently joined.
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> 'net ads testjoin' should really just do what it does today but HONOR the
> '-U username%password' command line convention. Why is that wrong?
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Anyone?

-aps