Windows 7 fails to join Samba 4 AD - about to give up on samba4 as NOT WORKING

[Mauro M.]

Hello Ricky,

I have just double checked ports 88 and 53 and I confirm that when samba
is stopped no service is listening to either, whilst when samba is started
then samba is the service listening to them. Here is a copy of the result
of netstat -anp for both:
[root at metis samba]# netstat -anp|grep 53
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53                  0.0.0.0:*                 
 LISTEN      5496/samba
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:53                  0.0.0.0:*                 
             5496/samba

[root at metis samba]# netstat -anp|grep 88
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:139                 0.0.0.0:*                 
 LISTEN      5488/smbd
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:88                  0.0.0.0:*                 
 LISTEN      5490/samba
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:445                 0.0.0.0:*                 
 LISTEN      5488/smbd
tcp        0      0 :::139                      :::*                      
 LISTEN      5488/smbd
tcp        0      0 :::445                      :::*                      
 LISTEN      5488/smbd
udp        0      0 192.168.10.72:88            0.0.0.0:*                 
             5490/samba
udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:88                  0.0.0.0:*                 
             5490/samba


I am also attaching smb.conf and log.samba.

I have stopped, deleted the old log and restarted samba before going onto
the Windows 7 client and attempting to join the domain again so that I
could get a clean log including samba initialization, however the same
happens even if I boot Windows 7 client and try to join all whilst samba
is running.

I hope that someone could help.

Mauro

On Fri, September 13, 2013 12:46 pm, Ricky Nance wrote:
> Check log.samba and see what it says, log.smbd is for the fileserver
> backend and those messages are normal. The log.samba may tell you that you
> have a port in use already (which is normally the case)... Does smbclient
> //localhost/sysvol -Uadministrator connect up and work fine? Also to
> doublecheck some things try netstat -anp | grep 88 | grep "LISTEN " and
> then the same for 53 both before you start samba and after, these seem to
> be the common ports that I see blocked (in use) by most distros.
>
> Ricky
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Mauro M. <mm12 at ezplanet.net> wrote:
>
>> Hello Stefan,
>>
>> Thank you for your kind reply.
>> Please see my answers below.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, September 13, 2013 10:20 am, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The installation passed all the tests as in the wiki but the
>> following:
>> >> $
>> >> host -t A samba.samdom.example.com.
>> >
>> > Which nameserver is used in /etc/resolv.conf?
>> > It should use Samba itself.
>>
>> I confirm that it is. I have set it as 127.0.0.1 I have tried with the
>> host IP address to (which does not really make any difference if the
>> network card is up and connected).
>>
>>
>> >
>> >> which failed at which point I have followed the instructions on the
>> DNS
>> >> wiki page and I have created the missing samba.samdom.example.com.
>> entry
>> >
>> > On what server?
>>
>> On the samba server using samba-tool dns add ...
>> Also I have configured the windows client to point to the samba server
>> only as DNS server.
>>
>> >
>> >> After several unsuccesful attempts starting over and over to follow
>> the
>> >> instructions in the wiki I have realized that the reverse DNS zone
>> was
>> >> not
>> >> created automatically. So I have created it manually and added the
>> >> samba4
>> >> DC server PTR record.
>> >
>> > That should not be needed. What nameserver does the windows client
>> use?
>> > It should use Samba or the used dns server should forward
>> > sambadom.example.com to
>> > Samba.
>> >
>>
>> I thought so, but it was worth a try as I do not know where else to
>> look.
>>
>> Is there anything else that I should look at? Is there any requirement
>> to
>> run other Linux services alongside samba? I am now running this on a
>> test
>> server with vanilla CentOS 6.4 and the standard configuration coming
>> with
>> a Live DVD install.
>>
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Mauro
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>


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