[Samba] S4 AD Domain Up; but no DNS auto-registration

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Dec 17 14:27:25 MST 2012


On Mon, 2012-12-17 at 09:36 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> samba-4.0.0 x86_64, CentOS6.3
> 
> My Samba4 / AD is up and running after migrating this weekend.  Testing
> looked good and the domain *is working* but there are some issues.
> 
> Automatic DNS update is not working.  Workstations seem to be
> registering their names but joining a server to the domain works but
> fails with a error - and the DNS record is *not* added.
> 
> [root at crew etc]# net ads join -U Administrator
> Enter Administrator's password:
> Using short domain name -- BACKBONE
> Joined 'CREW' to realm 'micore.us'
> DNS update failed!

When using the BIND server, but not the internal DNS server, this
happens for Samba clients only.  We have modified the Samba client in
4.0 to also work with BIND, and we need to get back to the BIND folks
about the issue.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org




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