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

[Arjit Gupta]

Thanks for the response.

Is this xattr causing this RPC server is unavailable issue ?

Arjit Kumar


On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 12:57 PM, Rowland Penny via samba <
samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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