[Samba] Failed to connect host on port 135 - NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED

[Jesper Koivumäki]

Hello,

I've been trying to install Samba4 for a while now, following the 
instructions over at:

  http://linuxdrops.com/install-samba-4-on-centos-rhel-fedora-debian-ubuntu/

However, when I get to the stage where I should be able to join the 
domain with a Windows machine (7, not XP) I run into networking issues. 
For one, my network is behind a NAT so I can't just use a public DNS for 
this. Since Samba4 has its internal DNS server, that shouldn't be a 
problem, right?

I tried to figure out what zonelists there are, so that I could add the 
domain there. This is what I get.

$ sudo samba-tool dns zonelist 10.0.1.5
Failed to connect host 10.0.1.5 on port 135 - NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED
Failed to connect host 10.0.1.5 (10.0.1.5) on port 135 - 
NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED.

I'm guessing there should be a process listening to port 135, but

$ sudo netstat -tulpan | grep "LISTEN" | grep "135" | wc -l
0

I've been trying to scour the web for this, but the results touch on a 
number of different problems, none of this apply to my situation.

Any clues as to what I should try out next or what part of Samba4 is broken?

-- 
Kind regards,
     Jesper Koivumäki