[Samba] ERROR_DNS_UPDATE_FAILED and NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL

[Bob of Donelson Trophy]

Never seen this mentioned before and it did not work. Sorry. 

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Bob Wooden of Donelson Trophy

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On 2015-02-08 03:21, buhorojo wrote: 

> On 06/02/15 19:45, Bob of Donelson Trophy wrote:
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>> 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?
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> 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
 

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