[Samba] Unable to join domain, apparent DNS problem

[Federico Nan]

Maybe you can try to do a setup domain again.


2013/2/22 Lee Allen <lee at leecallen.com>

> That also fails:
>
> lallen at oi.allenlan.net:~$ host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.allenlan.net.
> Host _ldap._tcp.allenlan.net. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> lallen at oi.allenlan.net:~$ host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.allenlan.net.
> Host _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.ALLENLAN.NET. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
>
> I can manually add these records, but according to the MS documentation, I
> shouldn't need to.
>
> Lee Allen
>
>
>
> On Feb 22, 2013 6:40 AM, "Federico Nan" <federico at nantec.com.ar> wrote:
>
>> You can try to find your record doing: (taking from the official how-to)
>>
>> host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.samdom.example.com.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2013/2/22 Lee Allen <lee at leecallen.com>
>>
>>> This isn't exactly a Samba problem, but I am hoping the experts here can
>>> help me.
>>>
>>> I have been trying to get my OpenIndiana system to join a Samba4 domain
>>> and
>>> I was running into multiple problems. So I decided to test against a true
>>> Windows Server (2003) domain, to see if there is something wrong with my
>>> client-side setup.
>>>
>>> Attempting to join the WS2003 AD domain also fails.  Snooping the network
>>> traffic reveals this:
>>>
>>> client: DNS query _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.ALLENLAN.NET: type SRV, class IN
>>> DC: no such server
>>>
>>> I found this MS link:
>>> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc961719.aspx
>>>
>>> Which says, in part:
>>>
>>> "_ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.DnsDomainName
>>> Allows a client to locate a domain controller (dc) of the domain named by
>>> DnsDomainName . All Windows 2000 Server based domain controllers register
>>> this SRV record."
>>>
>>> I am very new to Active Directory setup.  So it is quite likely I have
>>> made
>>> a basic configuration error on the WS2003 AD setup.  But true Windows
>>> clients can join the domain successfully.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>>
>>> Does Samba4 automatically put this SRV record into its internal DNS
>>> server?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Lee Allen
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