Samba4/HOWTO--> Step 4: provision Samba4 Problem

[Julien Kerihuel]

On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 14:06 +0200, mustafa.evelioglu wrote:
> Help SOS,
> Im trying to install Samba 4 on a Debian System. Because I need it for
> my Study.
> I tried to install like in Samba4/Howto.
> But after I had ran Step 4 provision:
> ./setup/provision --realm=YOUR.REALM --domain=YOURDOM
> --adminpass=SOMEPASSWORD --server-role='domain controller'
> I got :
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./setup/provision", line 158, in ?
>     ldap_backend_type=opts.ldap_backend_type)
>   File "bin/python/samba/provision.py", line 959, in provision
>     hostip = socket.getaddrinfo(names.hostname, None, socket.AF_INET,
> socket.AI_CANONNAME, socket.IPPROTO_IP)[0][-1][0]
> socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')


Hi Mustafa,

I think your hostname can't be resolved. A temporary solution would be
to add it to /etc/hosts. Otherwise, you need to point
your /etc/resolv.conf to some DNS able to resolve your computer
hostname.

Hope it helps,

Cheers,
Julien.
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Julien Kerihuel
j.kerihuel at openchange.org
OpenChange Project Manager

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