[Samba] Samba 4.9, RSAT, Windows 10 - "Cannot Manage the operating System..."

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:45:14 -0500
Marco Shmerykowsky <marco at sce-engineers.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 2018-12-28 10:37 am, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 10:27:32 -0500
> > Marco Shmerykowsky via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm trying to get an Samba AD setup.  I thought I had RSAT working,
> >> but when I launch the server manager I get the error message:
> >> 
> >> "Error - Cannot manage the operating system of the target computer"
> >> 
> >> I can ping the computer and the internal DNS seems to be working.
> >> I can manually create shares & I can browse netlogon and sysvol
> >> of the AD server.
> >> 
> >> Am I missing something or is this expected behavior?
> >> 
> >> Thanks
> >> 
> >> marco
> >> 
> >> 
> > 
> > What exactly are you trying to do ?
> > Who is the user you are trying to do it with ?
> > 
> > Rowland
> 
> I'm trying to get group policies to map drives (separate email thread 
> question).

I sort of thought this was the case, after reading your second post, but
WHO are you running as on the Windows PC running 'server manager' ?

> 
> The various tools/snapins seem to work, however, the dashboard on the
> Server Manager is showing "Red" for "manageability" of my server.
> 
> Not sure if this is expected behavior.
> 
> I do see an error message about the RPC server being unavailable.

This is very common and can be ignored.

Rowland