[Samba] How do I join a samba 3 client to a samba 4 AD server?

[Quinn Plattel]

Should be posted on the list too...

br,
Quinn

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Quinn Plattel <qiet72 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Steve,
>
> Looks like I got it working now:
>
> # net ADS JOIN -U Administrator
> Enter Administrator's password:
> Using short domain name -- MYDOMAIN
> Joined 'UBUNTU-TEST' to realm 'mydomain.net'
> DNS Update for ubuntu-test.mydomain.net failed: ERROR_DNS_INVALID_MESSAGE
> DNS update failed!
>
> Not sure why dns is not being updated - is it because I manually added
> ubuntu-test to the dns server beforehand?
>
> br,
> Quinn
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 1:03 PM, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/07/12 12:27, Quinn Plattel wrote:
>>
>>
>>> # net ADS JOIN -U Administrator
>>> Enter Administrator's password:
>>> Failed to join domain: failed to lookup DC info for domain 'MYDOMAIN.NET
>>> '
>>> over rpc: Invalid server state
>>>
>>>  Hi Quinn
>>
>> We got a similar message when DNS wasn't working. We added the server IP
>> to /etc/hosts and made the server IP the only DNS entry in /etc/resolv.conf
>> on the client and we could then join.
>>
>> Otherwise make sure that
>>  host server
>> on the client works.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Steve
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>
>
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> Best regards/Med venlig hilsen,
> Quinn Plattel
>



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Best regards/Med venlig hilsen,
Quinn Plattel