DsAddEntry Failed...

[R. Rochte]

Whilst attempting to join a Samba 4 box to an existing AD as an additional
domain controller, I received an error stating that the "DsAddEntry
failed".  Text below is copied from my attempt - domain name has been
replaced with "mydomain.org".   -R


root at thor:/usr/local/samba# bin/samba-tool domain join
school.mydomain.orgDC -Uadministrator --realm=
school.mydomain.org
Finding a writeable DC for domain 'school.mydomain.org'
Found DC helg.school.mydomain.org
Password for [WORKGROUP\administrator]:
workgroup is GPA
realm is school.mydomain.org
checking sAMAccountName
Deleted CN=THOR,CN=Computers,DC=school,DC=mydomain,DC=org
Adding CN=THOR,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=school,DC=mydomain,DC=org
Adding
CN=THOR,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=school,DC=mydomain,DC=org
Adding CN=NTDS
Settings,CN=THOR,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=school,DC=mydomain,DC=org
DsAddEntry failed with status (5, 'WERR_ACCESS_DENIED') info (8567,
'WERR_DS_INCOMPATIBLE_VERSION')
Join failed - cleaning up
checking sAMAccountName
Deleted CN=THOR,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=school,DC=mydomain,DC=org
Deleted
CN=THOR,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=school,DC=mydomain,DC=org
ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception - DsAddEntry failed
  File
"/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
line 175, in _run
    return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
  File
"/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", line
552, in run
    machinepass=machinepass, use_ntvfs=use_ntvfs, dns_backend=dns_backend)
  File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/join.py", line
1104, in join_DC
    ctx.do_join()
  File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/join.py", line
1007, in do_join
    ctx.join_add_objects()
  File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/join.py", line
525, in join_add_objects
    ctx.join_add_ntdsdsa()
  File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/join.py", line
458, in join_add_ntdsdsa
    ctx.DsAddEntry([rec])
  File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.6/site-packages/samba/join.py", line
421, in DsAddEntry
    raise RuntimeError("DsAddEntry failed")