can't join an existing domain with short name

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 09:50 -0500, Kenneth Armstrong wrote:
> 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:
> 
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> 
> 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:
> 
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> 
> 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?

Your only option would be to remove those checks from the source.  It
should/might work.  We don't generally make assumptions about that, but
we may still need to patch some things as they come up.

Andrew Bartlett

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