[Samba] The RPC server is unavailable

[Jesper Koivumäki]

Hi,

Thank you for your reply!

I don't have any openchange services included in my installation. Nor am 
I using sogo.

I changed the DNS settings on the DHCP server now, to only include the 
PDC. Any idea if I can still have the PDC forward the DNS calls with 
"dns forwarder" in smb.conf? Can I still use a secondary DNS server in 
resolv.conf on the PDC?


It feels a bit risky, when profiles are corrupting left and right, to 
restrict any users to only use the PDC as a DNS server. I really hope 
this does the trick, but I still can't log in with the Administrator 
account.


Kind regards,
     Jesper Koivumäki


Den 2015-03-18 21:05, Steve Ankeny skrev:

> I had a similar issue:
>
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-February/189159.html
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2015-February/189167.html
>
> Essentially, I pointed my client DNS to the Samba AD DC only and 
> commented out "derpc" calls.
>
> On 03/18/2015 01:56 PM, 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?
>>
>