[Samba] Suggestions for cross site domain

[Wayne Merricks]

Possibly but then that would mean DNS is working for IPv6 but not for 
v4.  I'll look into the DNS side, I'm more familiar with Bind than I am 
with Samba's internal DNS so time for more reading.

Thanks,

Wayne

On 2016-01-28 22:07, Rowland penny wrote:
> On 28/01/16 21:32, Wayne Merricks wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>
> I don't think this has anything to do with ipv6, I just think that it
> is a dns problem. If you don't tell the join command which DC to join
> to, it will have to search for one and if this fails, you get the
> error message you did.
>
> Rowland