[PATCH] Create DC DNS entires at domain join

[Rowland Penny]

On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 20:55:34 +1200
Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 15:08 +1200, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-06-09 at 20:03 +0200, Marc Muehlfeld wrote:
> > > Hi Andrew,
> > > 
> > > Am 09.06.2017 um 06:48 schrieb Andrew Bartlett via
> > > samba-technical:
> > > > > Attached is the patch to have Samba create DNS entries at
> > > > > domain join.
> > > 
> > > I tested the patch with samba-master. If I join a new Samba DC
> > > (also samba-master + patch), the A and objectGUID records are now 
> > > automatically created. Good work.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > However, should this also work when a user joins a Windows DC? I
> > > joined 2008 R2 (incl. all available updates), but neither the A
> > > nor the objectGUID record was created.
> > 
> > That is interesting.  During development I did test it with Windows,
> > either 2008R2 or 2012R2 and it did create the records.  That is
> > where I noticed the different ACLs I mention in the commit.
> > 
> > DNS records are only created if the seperate DNS partition is
> > observed.
> 
> I just tested with my 2008R2 DC, with a separate DNS partition, and it
> worked fine.  
> 
> How would you like to proceed from here?  Push the patches and debug
> the remaining issues for your environment after they are in master, or
> have me examine your logs first, or ?
> 
> Naturally I'm rather keen to wrap this up for 4.7, but neither do I
> want to brush your findings aside.
> 
> Either way, the output of 'samba-tool domain join' would be the first
> step I need, followed by a network trace.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Bartlett

Hi Andrew, its not entirely clear whether you and Marc are taking about
doing the same thing ;-)

Did Marc join the 2008R2 server to a Samba DC, or was it the opposite
way round ? and are you doing it the same way ?

I don't suppose it should make a difference, they both should work, but
are they ?

Rowland