[Samba] ERROR_DNS_UPDATE_FAILED and NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL

[Rowland Penny]

On 08/02/15 09:21, buhorojo wrote:
> On 06/02/15 19:45, Bob of Donelson Trophy wrote:
>>
>> I have been struggling with getting a member server to join my domain.
>> Thanks to testing and using a VM, I can get the test member server to
>> join my domain. The member server on "real hardware" cannot join, well
>> sort of.
>>
>> When I "join", I get:
>>
>> net ads join -U Administrator
>> Enter Administrator's password:
>> Using short domain name -- DTS***M
>> Joined 'DTMBR01' to dns domain 'dts***m.lan'
>> DNS Update for dtmember01.dts***m.lan failed: ERROR_DNS_UPDATE_FAILED
>> DNS update failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
>>
>> And when I "leave", I get:
>>
>> net ads leave -U Administrator
>> Enter Administrator's password:
>> Deleted account for 'DTMBR01' in realm 'DTS***M.LAN'
>>
>> So, I look for what where?
> The DC handling the join does not know the fqdn of the member server. 
> Add:
> 127.0.0.1 dtmember01.dts***m.lan dtmember01 localhost
> to /etc/hosts
> then rejoin

DON'T do this, You can check that /etc/hosts has this:

127.0.0.1    localhost
<computer ip>    dtmember01.dts***m.lan dtmember01

If you do it the way advised, your computer *will* only reply to '127.0.0.1'

Rowland