Can't join samba4 as domain controller

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 10:34 -0300, Juan Pablo Lorier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, sorry for writting to this list but had no luck on general list.
> 
> I'm trying to join samba 4 alpha 20 to my windows 2003 AD domain and I 
> get this error:
> 
> Adding SPNs to CN=SAMBADC1,OU=Domain 
> Controllers,DC=montecarlotv,DC=com,DC=uy
> Setting account password for SAMBADC1$
> Enabling account
> Calling bare provision
> Join failed - cleaning up
> checking sAMAccountName
> Deleted CN=SAMBADC1,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=montecarlotv,DC=com,DC=uy
> Deleted CN=NTDS 
> Settings,CN=SAMBADC1,CN=Servers,CN=Nombre-predeterminado-primer-sitio,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=montecarlotv,DC=com,DC=uy
> Deleted 
> CN=SAMBADC1,CN=Servers,CN=Nombre-predeterminado-primer-sitio,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=montecarlotv,DC=com,DC=uy
> ERROR(exceptions.NameError): uncaught exception - global name 'all' is 
> not defined
>    File 
> "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", 
> line 160, in _run
>      return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
>    File 
> "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", 
> line 179, in run
>      machinepass=machinepass)
>    File "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/samba/join.py", 
> line 964, in join_DC
>      ctx.do_join()
>    File "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/samba/join.py", 
> line 870, in do_join
>      ctx.join_provision()
>    File "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/samba/join.py", 
> line 598, in join_provision
>      dns_backend="NONE")
>    File 
> "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/samba/provision/__init__.py", 
> line 1704, in provision
>      sitename=sitename, rootdn=rootdn)
>    File 
> "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/samba/provision/__init__.py", 
> line 507, in guess_names
>      if not valid_netbios_name(netbiosname):
>    File 
> "/usr/local/samba/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/samba/__init__.py", line 
> 310, in valid_netbios_name
>      return all([is_valid_netbios_char(x) for x in name])
> 
> It's on a Centos 5.6 server. I've removed everything from samba3 as told 
> by a post I found with the same error, but still nothing.
> Any one had already this problem? Do I need to use Centos 6?
> I increased the log level of samba-tool to 7 but nothing called my 
> attention(I may not be a good viewer). This is the part of the error and 
> this is the output:

My first guess is that 'all' isn't defined in Python 2.4, which is the
version on RHEL 5.  We probably just need to change the syntax to
something Python 2.4 compatible.  

But if you can, you might want to upgrade to CentOS 6, before you start.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org