[Samba] Failing to join existing AD as DC

[L.P.H. van Belle]

Reboot A DC, and check again if the dns records are there. 
If your already in the DNS-tool, dont forget to refresh the window after the server reboot. 

> I had to install dnsutils package on 
> Debian for the DNS updates to work properly.
Which setup did you follow so we can update the info on this. 
Wiki other howto's? 
If you have a link of it, that would be nice. 


Greetz, 

Louis


> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: samba [mailto:samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] Namens 
> Alexander Harm via samba
> Verzonden: maandag 26 augustus 2019 11:37
> Aan: samba at lists.samba.org
> Onderwerp: Re: [Samba] Failing to join existing AD as DC
> 
> OK, DNS is solved, I had to install dnsutils package on 
> Debian for the DNS updates to work properly.
> 
> 
> But the non-existence of the Samba DCs in AD Users and 
> Computers persists.
> 
> On 26. August 2019 at 11:27:04, Alexander Harm 
> (contact at aharm.de) wrote:
> 
> OK, did everything as suggested, re-installed and joined the 
> Samba instances to AD. Worked flawlessly so far.
> 
> However, there are two things I noticed which bother me a 
> bit. On the Windows DC:
> 
> DNS Manager: the two Samba DCs are not listed as nameservers 
> for the domain
> 
> AD Users and Computers: the two Samba DCs do neither appear 
> in Domain Controllers nor under Computers
> 
> They both appear in AD Sites & Services correctly and as 
> mentioned above, everything seems to work just fine.
> 
> Question: should I simply add them manually as nameservers 
> (makes sense to me) and as domain controllers (probably makes 
> no difference)?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 16. August 2019 at 16:14:02, Rowland penny via samba 
> (samba at lists.samba.org) wrote:
> 
> On 16/08/2019 15:02, L.P.H. van Belle via samba wrote:
> > Naa.. Not needed to reinstall.
> >
> > His setup is better then most i see here.
> > He could do.
> >
> > apt-get remove --autoremove --purge samba winbind
> >
> > And reinstall samba, that should be sufficient.
> > But stopping samba-ad-dc and removing the files for the 
> /var/{lib,cache}/samba is suffient.
> >
> > I do that on every test server.
> 
> I was just making sure ;-)
> 
> I am going now to the Samba 'join' wiki page to ensure it says 'do not
> provision before attempting a join' ;-)
> 
> Rowland
> 
> 
> 
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