[Samba] Problems joining ADS Domain with Debian

[Guillermo Gutierrez]

My network doesn't have a wins server, how can I get samba to use dns. 

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From: Gerald (Jerry) Carter [mailto:jerry at samba.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 7:52 PM
To: Guillermo Gutierrez
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Problems joining ADS Domain with Debian

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Guillermo Gutierrez wrote:
> I am running a Debian Linux system with Samba 3.0.23d and the
> 2.6.8-3-386 kernel. I found a howto for adding a debian samba server 
> to an ADS domain on debian-administrator.org but when I get to the 
> point of actually running the 'net ads join' I get the following
errors:
> 
> 'resolve_name:unknown name switch type dns'

Valid name resolve order settings in smb.conf are
* host ( or hosts)
* bcast
* lmhosts
* wins


Sounds like you found some bad documentation.









cheers, jerry
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