Samba as a PDC - Windows Vista

[Jeff]

Under further examination, it appears the NETBIOS lookups are failing on the
Vista PC

"The domain name HOMENET might be a NetBIOS domain name.  If this is the
case, verify that the domain name is properly registered with WINS."


On 8/31/07, Jeff <acuralegend at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I do not have a Windows 2000/20003 DNS server in place. Without the SRV
> entries I added to the BIND 9 server I was recieving the following error:
>
> The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location
> (SRV) resource record used to locate a domain controller for domain
> MYDOMAIN.NET:
>
> The error was: "DNS name does not exist."
> (error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR)
>
> The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.HOMENET.LOCAL
>
> Common causes of this error include the following:
>
> - The DNS SRV record is not registered in DNS.
>
> - One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its
> child zone:
>
> HOMENET.LOCAL
> LOCAL
> . (the root zone)
>
>
>
> On 8/31/07, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 22:27 -0700, ronmexico wrote:
> > > Ok......
> > >
> > > I added the SRV records to my Bind 9 DNS server. I'm now gettinga
> > DIFFERENT
> > > WINS/DNs resolution error. I am now getting the following error when
> > trying
> > > to join a Windows Vista client to the 'HOMENET.LOCAL' domain
> > [controlled by
> > > 'fbsd.homenet.local' (192.168.21.10)...]
> >
> > Don't do that.  Don't add the SRV records, and don't attempt to join the
> >
> > domain using a DNS name.
> >
> > > Here is my smb.conf:
> > >
> > >    [global]
> > >     workgroup = HOMENET
> >
> > Join the 'HOMENET' domain
> >
> > >     netbios name = FBSD.HOMENET.LOCAL
> >
> > This should be FBSD, or if that's your hostname, leave it as the
> > default.
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >
> > --
> > Andrew Bartlett
> > http://samba.org/~abartlet/ <http://samba.org/%7Eabartlet/>
> > Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
> > Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Keep it real! Fakin the funk is not an option
>



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