[Samba] New Samba Error We Have Not Seen Before

Marc Muehlfeld samba at marc-muehlfeld.de
Mon May 27 15:45:52 MDT 2013


Hello Eric,

Am 27.05.2013 20:32, schrieb Robinson, Eric:
> We have about 40 samba servers in our domain. The two newest ones are throwing an error we've never seen before.
>
> [root at vmhost06a samba]# net join
> Enter root's password:
> dos charset 'CP850' unavailable - using ASCII
> convert_string_talloc: Conversion not supported.
> Failed to join domain: failed to lookup DC info for domain 'MYCHARTS.MD' over rpc: Memory allocation error
> ADS join did not work, falling back to RPC...
> convert_string_talloc: Conversion not supported.
> Connection failed: NT_STATUS_NO_MEMORY
> Enter root's password:
> convert_string_talloc: Conversion not supported.
> Could not connect to server RPT01
> Connection failed: NT_STATUS_NO_MEMORY
> Any thoughts?

There's an open bug report with the same error:
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9080



Is it AD or a NT4 style environment?


Can you join with (if it's AD):
# net ads join -U administrator



> Possibly related: It alwways says "could not connect to server
 > RPT01." I'm not sure why it says this since RPT01 is our oldest
 > domain controller and it is not referenced in any of the config
 > files. Only servers DC01 and TS04 are mentioned in krb5.conf.
 > I suppose it must be getting it from DNS, but why only RPT01?

I guess DNS, too. Does RPT01 have any special role?

Do you have 'dns_lookup_kdc = true'? Then the lookup for the KDC is done 
via DNS (I don't know if the hardcoded entries are then ignored). It's 
just a guess.


Regards,
Marc


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