[Samba] unable to join to a Samba4 domain

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Am 29.05.2010 20:58, Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
> On 29/05/2010 19:17, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Am 29.05.2010 20:15, Lukasz Zalewski wrote:
>>
>>>> Unfortunately, Windows XP SP3 fails to join a Samba4 domain as well.
>>>>
>>>> How can I troubleshoot it?
>>
>>> Are both the samba4 and client machine on the same subnet? If not are
>>> there any firewalls, or routers in the way?
>>
>> Same subnet, no firewalls or routers on the way.
>
>>
>>> Is your client dns configuration pointing explicitly at samba4
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>
> Hmm this is mostly odd,
> are you using FQDN to join the domain?

Yes.


> Can you resolve all of the samba4 generated dns records externally
> (http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO Configure DNS section),
> such as
> host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.samdom.example.com.

Yes, it works correctly (as is /usr/local/samba/sbin/samba_dnsupdate 
--verbose).

You'll find an attached pcap file produced by Wireshark made on the 
Windows XP machine.
It shows DNS and LDAP queries flow both ways.

Do you see anything unusual there?


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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