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

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 08:27 +1100, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 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.

But I am using the "internal" Samba DNS server, not Bind.

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Adam Tauno Williams  GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA