[Samba] Best way to add samba4 to existing domain

[Caleb O'Connell]

I followed this link
http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO/Join_a_domain_as_a_DC
which was very helpful.  I was leaving a few things out that might be 
helpful to others.

My steps were:

-build Samba4 but don't provision.

-I added the fully qualified domain names of all the other server to the 
machine I looking to have join the domain.  This allowed kinit to work.

-run command:
samba-tool domain join <domain> DC -Uadministrator --realm-<realm name>

This worked like a charm.  Much easier that I was making in my head.


> I have Samba4 running, and it had a win2k3 server joined to it.  This is
> working great.
> I'd like to add another Ubuntu 12.04 server with samba4 beta5.  What's the
> best join method?
> 
> Do I provision the server as a member, then join using samba-tools domain
> join <domain>
> When I do it looks like it doesn't replicate the directory, just forwards?
> 
> Should I provision as a DC with the same settings and then do the join?
> This fails with a IO_TIMEOUT sort of error.
> 
> Is there another method that I just haven't discovered yet?
> 
> Thanks in advance for all the great help.
> 
> Caleb
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