[Samba] Cannot join Ubuntu12.04 Samba 4.1.17 to domain

[Rowland Penny]

On 04/06/15 09:10, ivenhov wrote:
> I'm trying
>
> sudo net ads join -S dc1001.mynat.myco.bcu -U testuser -d10
>
> and also
>
> sudo net ads join createcomputer="My/Ou/For/Servers" -S
> dc1001.mynat.myco.bcu -U testuser -d10
>
>
> It works for me every time in lab on real hw (same spec) and on virtualbox.
> It's just this particular site (with large AD infrastructure) where it's
> failing.
>
> I don't quite understand is why it complains about KDC why in fact I can
> ping it and get ticket via kinit.
> What would be next step to diagnose it? I'm out of ideas at this point.
>
>
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I normally just use: net ads join -U Administrator

Could it be that allowing a normal user to join computers has been 
turned off ?

If the above command line is still failing to find the KDC, then it does 
sound like a dns problem. I seem to remember reports of using the wrong 
password can produce a similar error i.e. the error message has really 
nothing to do with the actual error.

Rowland