[Samba] samba4 ADS no logon servers

[Denis Cardon]

Hi Lars,

> I set up a samba4 test server on Debian Wheezy using the packages from
> sernet. Basically it seems working. I tried the tests from the HowTo in
> the samba wiki and could not find anything wrong. It seems to resolve
> all DNS names, I can kinit Administrator, getent passwd has the samba
> specific stuff, ... But as soon as I want to work with the ADS,
> apparently nothing works at all.
>
> root at nfs4:~# net ads info
> ads_connect: No logon servers
> ads_connect: No logon servers
> Didn't find the ldap server!
> root at nfs4:~# host -t SRV _ldap._tcp.mgr
> _ldap._tcp.mgr has SRV record 0 100 389 nfs4.mgr.

is this a typo or is "mgr" the real dns suffix? Single label DNS name 
are really not recommanded.  Could you please first try to reprovision 
with a standard domain name with a .local, .loc or .lan at the end?

After that, check in your /etc/hosts that the machine name nfs4.mgr.loc 
does not maps to 127.0.0.1, make it point to your eth0 address, with 
FQDN name first and short name second.

Hope this helps,

Denis


> root at nfs4:~# smbclient //nfs4/netlogon -UAdministrator -c 'ls'
> Enter Administrator password:
> Domain=[AD] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 4.1.4-SerNet-Debian-7.wheezy]
>    .                                   D        O  Thu Feb 20 15:13:27 2014
>    ..                                  D        O  Thu Feb 20 15:13:41 2014
> root at nfs4:~#
>
> Any idea what is wrong? Is there any systematic approach to troubleshoot
> such an installation?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>   - lars.


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