[Samba] Joining a Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 DC to a Samba AD - ISSUE - The RPC server is unavailable

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 10:43:50 +0530
Arjit Gupta <arjitk.gupta at gmail.com> wrote:


If you read the output from your provision command, there is this:

> You are not root or your system do not support xattr, using tdb
> backend for attributes.
> not using extended attributes to store ACLs and other metadata. If you
> intend to use this provision in production, rerun the script as root
> on a system supporting xattrs.

Followed by this:

> xattr_tdb_removexattr() failed to get vfs_handle->data!

Sorry, but in my opinion, you cannot reliably and safely run a Samba AD
DC on your OS unless you can fix the lack of xattr and ACLs on the
system.

Rowland