[Samba] Few questions about members

[steve]

On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 15:57 -0400, Steve Campbell wrote:
> On 6/4/2014 3:37 PM, Steve Campbell wrote:
> >
> > 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
> My hosts file now has this line in it:
> 
> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 
> localhost4.localdomain4 member1.ts.mystuff.com member1
> 
> I seemed to recall that each line in hosts could only have 4 names, but 
> left the default installed names on the localhost line.
> 
> I stopped and restarted smbd, nmbd, and winbindd to no avail. I then 
> tried rejoining as a member with no benefits.

Please help us to help you. We have already given you the correct line
for /etc/hosts. Why not use that?