[Samba] Suggestions for cross site domain

[Wayne Merricks]

Apologies, managed to venture onto the dreaded 2nd page of Google and 
found an answer.

If anyone gets stuck add --server to the end of the command and this 
points samba-tool directly to the DC you wish to use for joining.

E.g. my dc of ukads001.int.thevoiceasia.com makes this command:

sudo samba-tool domain join int.thevoiceasia.com DC -Uadministrator 
--realm=int.thevoiceasia.com

into

sudo samba-tool domain join int.thevoiceasia.com DC -Uadministrator 
--realm=int.thevoiceasia.com --server ukads001.int.thevoiceasia.com

If anyone knows why this is necessary without IPv6 I would be 
interested in the answer.

Apologies for any time wasting.


On 2016-01-28 21:17, Wayne Merricks wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Command to join:
>
> sudo samba-tool domain join int.thevoiceasia.com DC -Uadministrator
> --realm=int.thevoiceasia.com
>
> I can reproduce the problem in the UK and it seems to be something to
> do with IPv6.  As far as I'm aware, although my network switches
> support IPv6, I have never set it up.
>
> I have disabled IPv6 addresses on all the DCs a few days ago.  I
> suppose it is possible part of my original domain set up harbours 
> some
> IPv6 shenanigans but it certainly isn't intended.
>
> To reproduce:
>
> New UK Server with IPv6 enabled even though my DCs themselves report
> no IPv6 addresses (default state):
>
> All OK
>
> New UK Server with IPv6 disabled:
>
> ERROR(exception): uncaught exception - Failed to find a writeable DC
> for domain 'int.thevoiceasia.com'
>
> Does anyone know how I stop IPv6 being used on join?
>
> Regards,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 2016-01-28 18:23, James wrote:
>> On 1/28/2016 12:53 PM, Wayne Merricks wrote:
>>> Failed to find a writeable DC for domain
>> What is the command you are using to join? Have you done any DNS
>> testing to confirm you can find the DC you wish to join?
>>
>> --
>> -James