Join a domain as a DC - replicating problems

[Thomas Mueller]

Am Thu, 01 Nov 2012 11:59:47 +0100 schrieb Marc Muehlfeld:

> Hello,
> 
> I joined a fresh rc3 machine to my existing domain (DC is running also
> rc3) as a DC. I followed the "Join a domain as a DC" howto. But the
> following step fails:
> 
> # samba-tool drs showrepl -Uadministrator ERROR(<class
> 'samba.drs_utils.drsException'>): DRS connection to
> allel.muc.medizinische-genetik.de failed - drsException: DRS connection
> to allel.muc.medizinische-genetik.de failed: (-1073741772,
> 'NT_STATUS_OBJECT_NAME_NOT_FOUND')
...
> 
> The machine "allel.muc.medizinische-genetik.de" is the machine I've
> joined.
> 
> 
> It seems, the hostname was not added to the DNS:
> 
> # host -t A allel.muc.medizinische-genetik.de.
> Host allel.muc.medizinische-genetik.de. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

without a working dns samba4 will never work. so try fixing the dns 
problems before joining the new dc. Forward and reverse dns lookups for 
the fully-qualified hostname have to work before the join if your dynamic 
dns updates are not working.

- Thomas