[Samba] RPC Server Unavailable Message

[Rowland Penny]

On 19/12/14 22:17, Tim wrote:
> Try to give your samba server another NetBIOS hostname than localhost and comment out the lines with server services and dcerpc endpoint servers.
> Check your DNS back end. For now it seems due to your smb.conf that you are not using the samba internal DNS server. It's not a must have, but samba does not provide dns. NetBIOS name should be equal to your DNS hostname.

If you are using Bind as the DNS nameserver, **DONT** comment out the 
server services line, you will turn on the internal DNS server!

If 'LOCALHOST' is indeed the hostname of your AD DC, then you will need 
to change this, though as you are just testing it might be quicker and 
easier to re-provision

Also you seem to be using ntvfs instead of s3fs, do you really want to 
do this?

Rowland

>
> After that restart samba and see what happens.
>
> Regards
> Tim
>
> Am 19. Dezember 2014 20:10:35 MEZ, schrieb Asai <asai at globalchange.media>:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> We've been testing Sernet Samba AD and are running into trouble with
>> the
>> RPC server unavailable message when trying to edit group policy and
>> manage users with Windows 8.1.  Upon restarting the service, we can
>> connect to the RPC server, but after 24 hours or less, we can no longer
>>
>> connect.  I've been trying to find more information about this issue,
>> which was apparently fixed awhile back, but I can't really find much on
>>
>> it.  Please let me know how I can help resolve this issue.
>>
>> Our smb.conf is as follows:
>> # Global parameters
>> [global]
>>          workgroup = AVALON
>>          realm = AVALON.LOCAL
>>          netbios name = LOCALHOST
>>          server role = active directory domain controller
>>          server services = rpc, nbt, wrepl, ldap, cldap, kdc, drepl,
>> winbind, ntp_signd, kcc, dnsupdate, smb
>>          dcerpc endpoint servers = epmapper, wkssvc, rpcecho, samr,
>> netlogon, lsarpc, spoolss, drsuapi, dssetup, unixinfo, browser,
>> eventlog6, backupkey, dnsserver, winreg, srvsvc
>>          idmap_ldb:use rfc2307 = yes
>>          #kerberos method = system keytab
>>
>> [netlogon]
>>          path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol/avalon.local/scripts
>>          read only = No
>>
>> [sysvol]
>>          path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol
>>          read only = No
>>
>> [Users]
>>          read only = No
>>          path = /var/samba/Users
>>
>> -- 
>> Asai Lohmann
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