[Samba] Unable to join domain, apparent DNS problem

[Lee Allen]

I did quite a bit more research on this.  Everything I read says an AD DNS
should automatically set up those entries.  I found a few trouble-shooting
documents that suggested checking them, but nothing indicating why they
might be wrong, and what to do about it.

I agree that tearing down the domain and re-building it from scratch is the
right approach.

In the meantime, I returned to my Samba4 project, and found an error I had
made on the client side.  5 minutes later my openindiana system
successfully joined my Samba4 domain.  So at the moment I don't have any
real interest in pursuing the Windows Server issue.

Thanks for your help.

Lee Allen

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Federico Nan <federico at nantec.com.ar>wrote:

> 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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>


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