can't join an existing domain with short name

[Kenneth Armstrong]

I'm trying to join a Samba4 DC to an existing Windows Domain that only has a
short name 'CATCOMTEC2.'  The original admin that set it up didn't do
something like catcomtec2.local, catcomtec2.com, etc.

 

When I try to join, I get this in my output:

 

ERROR(<class 'samba.provision.ProvisioningError'>): uncaught exception -
ProvisioningError: guess_names: Realm 'CATCOMTEC2' must not be equal to
short domain name 'CATCOMTEC2'!

 

I saw that there was a bug request filed a couple of years ago, but
cancelled similar to this:

 

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8393

 

However, I don't have a choice.  Obviously I can not change the domain name
since this one is in production.  Any thoughts on how I can work around
this?

 

Kenny Armstrong

Operations Systems Administrator

Catalyst Communications Technologies

www.catcomtec.com <http://www.catcomtec.com/> 

Office: (434) 582-6146