[Samba] After joining domain, Samba uses the workgroup name, not the FQDN when running the net ads command

Wed Dec 2 16:07:07 UTC 2015

OK, sorry, I haven't re-read the whole thread carefully enough.
>From what I understand sometimes your DNS request are truncated, asking for
machineName.windows rahter than machineName.windows.rest.of.your.domain.tld

So you have to find what is cutting your DNS requests. If I'm wrong, don't
read the rest :p

First I would test my DNS resolution using dig, host or nslookup and check
with tcpdump if that resolution is working correctly. If request is not
truncated your issue comes from something else than your DNS resolution
configuration.
ex:
dig @192.168.127.129  whiskey.windows.corp.XXX.com
dig @192.168.127.141  whiskey.windows.corp.XXX.com
dig @192.168.112.4  whiskey.windows.corp.XXX.com

If it works, I would continue with simple command, perhaps a kinit as that
one should, I believe, also launch several DNS query (if your krb5.conf is
still alsmot empty).
Here you continue to check with tcpdump what DNS request your client is
launching (ex: on the client: tcpdump -i eth0 port domain)

The point is to define where is the issue, removing points where doubt
exists.
DNS queries are DNS queries. Kerberos seems to be acting simply just for a
kinit.

Finally once dig and kinit are working, you could dig into Samba
configuration.

2015-12-02 16:34 GMT+01:00 Jonathan S. Fisher <
jonathan at springventuregroup.com>:

> Dnsmasq is not running locally! Disabling it would do nothing but stop
> DHCP and DNS forwarding for 2000+ soon to be irate people.
>
> What I am going to do however is bypass DHCP completely and assign a
> static address with DNS pointed straight at active directory. If that still
> doesn't work, I think I can definitely narrow this down to a bug in Active
> Directory, our AD configuration, or a bug in Samba.
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 6:08 AM, mathias dufresne <infractory at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Can't you just disable dnsmasq service?
>>
>> You don't seem to be too much confident in that tool and you have DNS
>> issue...
>>
>> dnsmasq has most certainly a good reason to exist. I just don't know it.
>> In
>> IT for work we generally don't need such tool as infrastructures of
>> companies are meant to be stable. As the clients configuration.
>>
>> So I would start with dnsmasq removal, then I would [learn how to]
>> configure manually this client, then I would re-run test, starting with
>> small tests (DNS with dig/nslookup, kinit...)
>>
>> 2015-12-01 21:40 GMT+01:00 Jonathan S. Fisher <
>> jonathan at springventuregroup.com>:
>>
>> > So everything with the hostname with now resolving correctly, without
>> the
>> > 127.0.1.1 hack anymore. We just had to make sure DHCP was handing out
>> the
>> > correct domain, which it is now:
>> >
>> > $ hostname -d
>> > windows.corp.XXX.com
>> > $ hostname -f
>> > freeradius.windows.corp.XXX.com
>> >
>> > I deleted all the shared secrets, removed the computer from AD and
>> > rejoined... but of course, we're still getting the exact same issue...
>> :(
>> > It's still trying to query the wrong DNS entry.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Rowland Penny <
>> > rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
>> > > wrote:
>> >
>> > > On 01/12/15 17:27, Jonathan S. Fisher wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> It isn't running, one of the first things I do when setting up a new
>> DC
>> > is
>> > >>>
>> > >> to remove nscd if it is installed.
>> > >> Ah ok... well this isn't a DC, just a member... is NSCD ok to run as
>> a
>> > >> member? Otherwise I can remove it.
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > I would remove it, everything dns wise should come from an AD DC
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> you get a caching dnsmasq server as standard
>> > >>>
>> > >> Not on ubuntu server...  There is no dnsmasq package installed nor
>> is it
>> > >> in
>> > >> ps -ef
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > Ah, so no GUI then, ok in this case you probably wont have Network
>> > Manager
>> > > installed either.
>> > >
>> > > If you have to have that 127.0.1.1 line in /etc/hosts, you have dns
>> > >>>
>> > >> problems.
>> > >> I'll try to figure out how to get the client to have a FQDN without
>> the
>> > >> line in /etc/hosts
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > If this machine is going to be a fileserver, you would probably be
>> better
>> > > using a fixed ip, but if you going to have other Unix domain members
>> > using
>> > > dhcp, you need to sort this problem.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> I really am starting to hate Active Directory...
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > I just hate microsoft, it cuts out the middle man :-D
>> > >
>> > > Rowland
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:22 AM, Rowland Penny <
>> > >> rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
>> > >>
>> > >>> wrote:
>> > >>> On 01/12/15 17:09, Jonathan S. Fisher wrote:
>> > >>>
>> > >>> So your client did no DNS lookups?? That's crazy. Could they be
>> cached?
>> > >>> (Can you disable nscd if you have it running and try again?)
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> It isn't running, one of the first things I do when setting up a
>> new DC
>> > >>> is
>> > >>> to remove nscd if it is installed.
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Why, in your deity's name, why?????
>> > >>>>
>> > >>> I'm starting my own caliphate. Seems to be all the rage these days.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Dnsmasq isn't running locally... it's the main DNS server at
>> > >>> 192.168.127.129. At one time I guess we were running Bind, but he
>> > >>> switched
>> > >>> to dnsmasq for simplicity. If there's a legit reason why Windows
>> needs
>> > to
>> > >>> handle 100% of the DNS and DHCP for the network... well that's a
>> little
>> > >>> scary of a thought. Are these things in no way interoperable?
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> On Ubuntu, you get a caching dnsmasq server as standard, this is
>> > >>> controlled by Network Manager, this shouldn't be running on an AD
>> > client
>> > >>> (note this is only from my experience, it seems to interfere with AD
>> > >>> dns).
>> > >>>
>> > >>> DHCP doesn't need to be running on the DC, but it needs to give your
>> > >>> client the required info, see my previous post for what mine sends.
>> > >>> Your AD clients need to use your AD DCs as their DNS servers,
>> anything
>> > >>> your DCs don't know about i.e. google should be forwarded to a DNS
>> > server
>> > >>> that does i.e. your dnsmasq machine
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Your problem isn't that net is using the workgroup name, it is that
>> > your
>> > >>> machine doesn't seem to know who it is and where the DCs are :-)
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Mind you, until you get 'hostname -f' to return your FQDN, it will
>> not
>> > >>>>
>> > >>> work correctly.
>> > >>> Well this "works" right now with what I put into /etc/hosts. Are you
>> > >>> saying it has to work purely from dhcp?
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>> If you have to have that 127.0.1.1 line in /etc/hosts, you have dns
>> > >>> problems.
>> > >>>
>> > >>> Rowland
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >>>
>> > >
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