[Samba] Win Clients and DNS

[James]

On 11/16/2015 12:35 PM, Viktor Trojanovic wrote:
>
>
> On 16.11.2015 17:35, James wrote:
>> On 11/16/2015 11:15 AM, Viktor Trojanovic wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 16.11.2015 16:54, Ole Traupe wrote:
>>>> Is this your first-and-only DC ever for that domain?
>>>>
>>>> Did you try to re-join the Win clients with deleting the client 
>>>> objects after the 'leave'?
>>>>
>>>> Ole
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, first and only. As I said, it's more or less a lab setup that I 
>>> was planning to deploy on a very small scale.
>>>
>>> Re-join the win clients after deletion: I'm not sure what you mean. 
>>> Leaving the domain, then deleting the computer accounts in the AD? 
>>> What would the purpose of that be?
>>>
>>> Rowland and I came to the conclusion that it can't be a DNS issue. 
>>> And I checked the AD db, there are no errors there either.
>>>
>>> Viktor
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 16.11.2015 um 16:26 schrieb Viktor Trojanovic:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 16.11.2015 15:59, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>>>>>> There is nothing wrong with your policies.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Test if it all works and if it does, ignore these messages.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I having the same message. ( samba 4.2.5 )
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gr.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Louis
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm actually not sure about that. These are error, not warning 
>>>>> messages in the windows event viewer, and the concerned GP folder 
>>>>> is the same that sysvolcheck returns an error on. So, as 
>>>>> sysvolcheck on Linux returns the error on another folder, so does 
>>>>> the event viewer in Windows return an error on the same folder and 
>>>>> not the other one anymore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Something really strange is happening here.
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>>>>>> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens Viktor 
>>>>>>> Trojanovic
>>>>>>> Verzonden: maandag 16 november 2015 15:54
>>>>>>> Aan: Rowland Penny; samba at lists.samba.org
>>>>>>> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Win Clients and DNS
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 16.11.2015 15:34, Rowland Penny wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 16/11/15 14:18, Viktor Trojanovic wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 16.11.2015 14:22, L.P.H. van Belle wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> More explained..
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Only my laptops get a DHCP IP.
>>>>>>>>>> All my other computers have static ip.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> After the AD join, it does not matter if
>>>>>>>>>> 1) a desktop pc, when a static IP changes for a computer.
>>>>>>>>>> 2) a laptop gets a different IP.
>>>>>>>>>> The PC always updates its A and PTR
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> So, in both cases my A and PTR records are changed in the DNS.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Maybe an firewall setting on you pc is blocking the update to 
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> dns server or on the server you now allowing the dns updates.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Can you have a look into that?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Greetz,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Louis
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> OK, so my situation is as follow:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - NDS A and PTR are manually set on the Samba DNS for all domain
>>>>>>> members
>>>>>>>>> - All clients have fixed IP addresses and are in the same 
>>>>>>>>> subnet as
>>>>>>>>> the Samba server
>>>>>>>>> - I disabled the Windows Firewall just to make sure there is 
>>>>>>>>> no block
>>>>>>>>> on the PC either
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ==> No change, I still get the same error message in the windows
>>>>>>>>> event viewer.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> If I look at the error message, one line which seems wrong is
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> ----> Sent update to server: <?>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It does give the correct IP address in the following line but 
>>>>>>>>> is this
>>>>>>>>> how it should look?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Viktor
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> OK, just had a thought, is the DC the *only* dns server in the 
>>>>>>>> Samba
>>>>>>>> domain ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rowland
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yes, absolutely.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On another topic, you saw my thread on sysvolreset. It's driving me
>>>>>>> nuts. Everytime I run sysvolreset (which takes ages), and 
>>>>>>> subsequently
>>>>>>> run sysvolcheck, the error message names a different folder than 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> sysvolcheck before. What's up with that? Is that normal? How 
>>>>>>> often am I
>>>>>>> supposed to run sysvolreset to make it work? Mind you, I only 
>>>>>>> have 8
>>>>>>> policies, no scripts or other files, and it's the only DC. And 
>>>>>>> the DB
>>>>>>> check command ran with 0 errors.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Viktor
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Is this with Samba internal DNS? What version of Samba? Your original 
>> OP stated this to be the issue.
>>
>> "The system failed to register host (A or AAA) resource records (RRs) 
>> for network adapter with settings:"
>>
>> This doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong. Are you using 
>> secure or non-secure updates? Even though you are using static IP's, 
>> you will find these entries if one of the following was to happen and 
>> dns updates failed.
>>
>>  * A IP address was added or removed from the TCP/IP properties in 
>> Windows
>>  * Enforcing ipconfig /registerdns from a elevated command prompt
>>  * At startup
>>
>> Based on what you have said. It appears all A records belonging to 
>> the workstations are registered in DNS?
>>
>>
> Hi James,
>
> You might have seen from the thread with Rowland that we excluded DNS 
> as an error source, so moved to other checks. But thanks!
>
> Viktor
You might have also have seen where Rowland indicated I may be right?

-- 
-James