problems adding 2008R2 to BDC to samba4 DC

Aaron Solochek aarons-samba at aberrant.org
Mon Nov 21 10:33:25 MST 2011


I have tried looking at those, but I can't tell what I'm supposed to be looking 
at.  Can anyone tell me exactly where in the LDAP tree the relevant parameters 
are, and what they should be?

I also get errors when trying to manipulate those roles with ntdsutil

-Aaron

On 11/21/2011 11:43 AM, Pavel Herrmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would start by looking at FSMO roles (if you have a single DC you should
> have them all on that machine), and at DNS responses (dunno which queries it
> uses though)
>
> disclaimer: this is purely derived from the error message, with no guarantees.
>
> Pavel
>
> On Monday 21 of November 2011 11:24:24 Aaron Solochek wrote:
>> I'm running the 4.0 samba-master from git.  I updated it on friday in hopes
>> that something new would fix my issues, but it didn't.
>>
>> I'm trying to add a windows server 2008R2 backup DC to the existing samba4
>> setup.
>>
>> When I run the AD domain services installation wizard on windows I get the
>> following error:
>>
>> "Failed to examine the Active Directory forest.  The error was:
>> Expected value ridMasterServer.dnsHostName not found."
>>
>>
>> I'm not even sure where to start debugging this.  Any ideas would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Aaron
>
>
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