[Samba] Win Clients and DNS

[Viktor Trojanovic]

Hi Ole,

I am using Samba DNS. I didn't manually create records for the clients 
so they are not there. Are they necessary? Are A records enough?

And thanks about the tip with the DNS settings for the clients, I will 
uncheck the box.

Viktor

On 16.11.2015 09:25, Ole Traupe wrote:
> Viktor, can you manually check whether you have DNS records for your 
> Win clients?
>
> In the DNS settings for your Win clients' network adapters you can 
> uncheck that the current address shall be registered in DNS.
>
> Ole
>
>
> Am 16.11.2015 um 01:31 schrieb Viktor Trojanovic:
>> I have an AD with 1 Samba DC and 5 Windows 10 clients. The DC and the 
>> clients all have a fixed IPv4 address.
>>
>> In the windows event viewer, I constantly see the following warning:
>>
>> Event 8019, DNS Client Events
>> ------------------------------------------
>> The system failed to register host (A or AAA) resource records (RRs) 
>> for network adapter with settings:
>>
>> Adapter Name: {someGUID}
>> Host Name: Client-PC
>> Primary Domain Suffix: SAMDOM.COM
>> DNS Server list:
>>     192.168.0.1
>> Sent update to server: <?>
>> IP Addresses:
>>    192.168.0.15
>> ------------------------------------------
>>
>> Is it necessary to manually make some entries in DNS for the client 
>> machines? I didn't see anything about that in the Wiki.
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out if this is connected to another problem I'm 
>> facing. A machine based GPO is not executed because "the file 
>> \\SAMDOM.COM\SysVol\[...]\gpt.ini from a domain controller could not 
>> be read", and as one of the possible reasons for the error, name 
>> resolution is mentioned. I can access the file just fine once I'm 
>> logged in so I really don't know what the issue is here.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Viktor
>>
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