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

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 11:22:09 -0500
Marco Shmerykowsky PE <marco at sce-engineers.com> wrote:

> On 12/28/2018 11:11 AM, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > 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 who:  "Administrator" as defined by the basic AD setup

Then it should work, unless you have done something strange, such as
giving 'Administrator' a uidNumber attribute.

Can you post the contents of the following files:

/etc/hostname
/etc/hosts
/etc/resolv.conf
/etc/krb5.conf
/etc/nsswitch.conf
smb.conf

Is a firewall or selinux running ?

Rowland