[Samba] “Failed to find a writeable DC for domain” joining to win2k3 AD DC
Kevin Field
kev at brantaero.com
Tue Aug 13 08:15:05 MDT 2013
I have a CentOS 6.4 box with SerNet's Samba 4.0.8 installed and no
smb.conf file yet, as it should be. I want it to become an AD DC in my
existing Windows domain, replicating from the existing Windows Server
2003 box. I have SELinux enabled and want it to stay that way.
I'm getting this error trying to run samba-tool:
$ sudo samba-tool domain join currentwindowsadserver.mydomain.lan DC
-Uadministrator --realm=currentwindowsadserver.mydomain.lan
Finding a writeable DC for domain 'currentwindowsadserver.mydomain.lan'
ERROR(exception): uncaught exception - Failed to find a writeable DC for
domain 'currentwindowsadserver.mydomain.lan'
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py",
line 175, in _run
return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py",
line 552, in run
machinepass=machinepass, use_ntvfs=use_ntvfs, dns_backend=dns_backend)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 1082,
in join_DC
machinepass, use_ntvfs, dns_backend, promote_existing)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 73, in
__init__
ctx.server = ctx.find_dc(domain)
File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 246, in
find_dc
raise Exception("Failed to find a writeable DC for domain '%s'" %
domain)
I have a StackExchange thread open with all the things I've tried
changing and all the things I've verified so far:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86516/samba-4-gives-failed-to-find-a-writeable-dc-for-domain-on-samba-tool-domain-jo
I'd appreciate any pointers. I seem to have run out of things to try.
Thanks,
Kev
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