Joining AD domain fails: "Failed to set servicePrincipalNames. [...] Type or value exists"

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Kurt Pfeifle now responds to himself; earlier he wrote:
> Guenther Deschner wrote:
>> Hi Kurt,
>>
>> Kurt Pfeifle wrote:
>>> Hi, list,
>>> I'm having a problem to join a current Debian Sid/unstable system
>>> (running Samba 3.0.25a) to an AD domain (where the DC is a Windows
>>> 2003 Server with SP2):

[....]

>> Can you run your join with debug level 10 set and see if that is the
>> case ?
> 
> Indeed, I see the following lines in the output now:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> [2007/06/22 22:33:58, 10] lib/util.c:name_to_fqdn(3013)
>   name_to_fqdn: lookup for PDFMAKER failed.
> Failed to set servicePrincipalNames. Please ensure that
> the DNS domain of this server matches the AD domain,
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>> pdfserver and pdfserver.infotecsys.de probably need to resolve to
>> an ip-address.
> 
> Which they don't:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> root at pdfserver:~# nslookup pdfserver.infotecsys.de
>    Server:         10.162.2.3
>    Address:        10.162.2.3#53
> 
>    ** server can't find pdfserver.infotecsys.de: NXDOMAIN
> 
> root at pdfserver:~# host pdfserver.infotecsys.de
>    pdfserver.infotecsys.de does not exist (Authoritative answer)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------

[...]

> (I'm still
> trying to figure out how to teach the ADS DC's DNS service what IP
> address the pdfserver uses  ...).


OK, meanwhile I managed to insert the IP<->hostname mapping into the
DNS of the ADS DC:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
root at pdfserver:~# nslookup pdfserver
   Server:         10.162.2.3
   Address:        10.162.2.3#53

   Name:   pdfserver.infotecsys.de
   Address: 10.162.7.11

root at pdfserver:~# host pdfserver
   pdfserver.infotecsys.de A       10.162.7.11
-------------------------------------------------------------------

However, the result of my attempt to join the pdfserver to the domain
is still exactly the same failure as before:


-------------------------------------------------------------------
root at pdfserver:~# net ads join -W infotecsys.de -S dc -U Administrator
   Administrator's password:
   Using short domain name -- INFOTECSYS
   Failed to set servicePrincipalNames. Please ensure that
   the DNS domain of this server matches the AD domain,
   Or rejoin with using Domain Admin credentials.
   Deleted account for 'PDFMAKER' in realm 'INFOTECSYS.DE'
   Failed to join domain: Type or value exists
-------------------------------------------------------------------


Interestingly, now the debug level 10 output is a little bit different:

-------------------------------------------------------------------
root at pdfserver:~# net ads join -W infotecsys.de -S dc -U Administrator -d 10
   [2007/06/23 00:53:47, 10] lib/util.c:name_to_fqdn(3009)
     name_to_fqdn: lookup for PDFMAKER -> PDFMAKER.
   Failed to set servicePrincipalNames. Please ensure that
   the DNS domain of this server matches the AD domain,
-------------------------------------------------------------------


So, first there was no successful resolution of the pdfserver name to
an IP address, and debug level 10 showed:

  "name_to_fqdn: lookup for PDFMAKER failed."

Now that the pdfserver name is resolved to an IP address, debug level
10 shows:

  "name_to_fqdn: lookup for PDFMAKER -> PDFMAKER."

Cheers,
Kurt 
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