[Samba] Few questions about members

[Steve Campbell]

On 6/4/2014 3:13 PM, steve wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 12:22 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote:
>> Top posting now because the original was useless.
>>
>> When we try to join a member to the domain, the following results are given:
>>
>> # /usr/local/samba/bin/net ads join -U administrator
>> Enter administrator's password:
>> Using short domain name -- TS
>> Joined 'MEMBER1' to dns domain 'ts.mystuff.com'
>> DNS Update for member1.ts.mystuff.com failed: ERROR_DNS_UPDATE_FAILED
>> DNS update failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
>>
>> DNS seems to work as expected, though. The previous tests showed working
>> DNS.
> That's the worrying part. Samba still issues tickets even with the wrong
> (or no) dns registered in AD.
>> We have even added the A record for the server manually.
>>
>> # host -t A member1.ts.mystuff.com
>> member1.ts.mystuff.com has address 192.9.200.84
> Hi
> It doesn't matter if you add the record or not. It is the machine you
> are joining which HAS to send it's own ID. The best (only way we've
> found at least) way to do this is in /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 member1.ts.mystuff.com member1 localhost
>
> If you're dhcp, you'll also need some way to update the dns on the DC
> although worryingly, as we just said, you can still get tickets with the
> wrong or no IP in AD.
> HTH
> Steve
>
>
Does it have to be localhost? I didn't install this machine, and just 
discovered the person who put Centos on only used "Storage" as the 
hostname (not fully qualified). I don't think it matters in this venue 
what the real hostname is as long as the Netbios name matches what you 
put in the host file.

So, now that I know things must be in hosts (I presume it needs to be 
that way on the AD as well?), do I need to do anything like Un"join" and 
then re"join" the member?

Any thing that clues us in helps, so I'm sure you've helped a bit.

steve