[Samba] Samba 3.0.10 joining Windows 20003 ADS

[Andrew Zbikowski]

How about some thread necromancy. 

Here's the issue I was working to resolve back in December of '04. 
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2004-December/097804.html

Until today I never really resolved this problem to my satisfaction.
Samba worked with ADS, and that was fine. Today I was attempting to
perform the same setup on a new Linux server, and I was running into
the same error, and things were just not working.

Unlike last year however, I found a solution. Instead of relying on
Samba to pick it's domain controller or specifying my local domain
controller, I pointed Samba at the FSMO role master using the
"password server" directive in smb.conf. When I did so, net ads join
worked without error, and things came together, and things started to
function beautifully.

As our FSMO roles are on one server, I can't say for sure which FSMO
role Samba was looking for. Maybe it was after all five, maybe just
one.

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