[Samba] Missing DNS entry in an AD-DC provision.

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Wed Jun 20 19:47:44 UTC 2018


On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 08:43:02PM +0100, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:24:36 -0700
> Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Rowland,
> > 
> > I'm here at the Microsoft plugfest trying to help
> > a vendor join a Samba AD-DC (I just did a standard
> > local provision on my laptop using the internal DNS
> > server).
> > 
> > They fail due to looking for a DNS name of:
> > 
> >  _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.sambadom.example.com
> > 
> > (I provisioned with the standard realm name
> > of sambadom.example.com).
> > 
> > Should we be creating this record on provision ?
> 
> On provision, yes, on a join, no, these records are added at first run
> by samba_dnsupdate using 'dns_update_list'. If you look at this file,
> you will find at line 16:
> 
> ${IF_RWDC}SRV          _ldap._tcp.${DNSDOMAIN}                               ${HOSTNAME} 389
> ${IF_RWDC}SRV          _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.${DNSDOMAIN}                     ${HOSTNAME} 389
> ${IF_RWDC}SRV          _ldap._tcp.${DOMAINGUID}.domains._msdcs.${DNSFOREST}  ${HOSTNAME} 389

No worries - thanks for the help !

Turns out the record was there, they were typing the wrong
realm name on join :-).

Samba AD-AD supports another file serving vendor ! (Non
Samba based :-).

> No worries and just to say thanks for the famous T-shirt, it has
> arrived and I can now pretend to be superman LOL.

Thank SerNet ! They made the t-shirts and posted them to
you, I just asked :-) :-).

Cheers,

	Jeremy.



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