[Samba] The RPC server is unavailable

[Rowland Penny]

On 18/03/15 17:56, Jesper Koivumäki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running a samba 4.2 server on RedHat5 and for some reason I can't 
> seem to logon using the AD Users and Computers -tool.
>
> Whenever I try to connect to the PDC I get the following error:
>
> "The following Domain Controller could not be contacted: <name of 
> pdc>. The RPC server is unavailable."
>
> I've checked for any possible firewall issues, but even with all 
> firewalls turned off in between them, I still get the same error message.
>
> I've also noticed I cannot access the server with the Administrator 
> account over the network. When using smbclient I get 
> NT_STATUS_INVALID_SID and if I try to connect as Administrator with a 
> Windows 7 workstation, I just get a time out ("Error code: 0x80004005 
> Unspecified error).
>
> samba-tool works without a hitch, as do a number of other tools like 
> ldbedit and wbinfo.
>
>
> I've followed the instructions by Rowland Penny I found in the 
> archives for this mailing list:
>
> http://samba.2283325.n4.nabble.com/Administrators-SID-is-invalid-td4674430.html 
>
>
> But I just can't get the Administrator account to work. The same error 
> has now also started propagating to some of my test accounts as well 
> as my own main account.
>
> mots might've fixed this by installing 4.1.0, but I have yet to try 
> that. I figured I'd want to solve this with the current stable release.
>
> Anybody got any suggestions on how to tackle this?
>

WOW, fame at last, I got quoted :-D

Where did you get samba4 from ?

Can you post your smb.conf

Rowland