[Samba] Can't find machine account

[Robert A Wooldridge]

On 07/17/2019 12:48 PM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>
> What are you trying to join to ?
Active Directory domain, the only DC is a Server 2003 machine.

>
> Have you removed any existing smb.conf file ?
Yes
>
> Can you post the contents of the following files:
>
> /etc/hostname
athena
>
> /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain
10.10.1.10      athena.edm-inc.com      athena

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

>
> /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 10.10.1.14
nameserver 10.10.1.1
search edm-inc.com

>
> /etc/krb5.conf
[libdefaults]
     dns_lookup_realm = false
     dns_lookup_kdc = true
     default_realm = EDM-INC.COM
     default_tgs_enctypes = arcfour-hmac-md5 des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5
     default_tkt_enctypes = arcfour-hmac-md5 des-cbc-crc des-cbc-md5

[realms]
    EDM-INC.COM = {
    kdc = ADS1.EDM-INC.COM
    default_domain = EDM-INC.COM
    }

[domain_realm]
    .edm-inc.com = EDM-INC.COM
    edm-inc.com = EDM-INC.COM


Here's the full error:

Could not find machine account in secrets database: Failed to fetch 
machine account password for EDM from both secrets.ldb (Could not find 
entry to match filter: '(&(flatname=EDM)(objectclass=primaryDomain))' 
base: 'cn=Primary Domains': No such object: dsdb_search at 
../source4/dsdb/common/util.c:4705) and from 
/var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb: NT_STATUS_CANT_ACCESS_DOMAIN_INFO
Deleted CN=RID Set,CN=ATHENA,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=edm-inc,DC=com
Deleted CN=ATHENA,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=edm-inc,DC=com
Deleted CN=NTDS 
Settings,CN=ATHENA,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=edm-inc,DC=com
Deleted 
CN=ATHENA,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Site-Name,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=edm-inc,DC=com
ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception - (9003, 
'WERR_DNS_ERROR_RCODE_NAME_ERROR')
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", 
line 177, in _run
     return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", line 
716, in run
     backend_store=backend_store)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/join.py", line 1501, in 
join_DC
     ctx.do_join()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/join.py", line 1406, in 
do_join
     ctx.join_add_dns_records()
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/join.py", line 1143, in 
join_add_dns_records
     dns_partition=domaindns_zone_dn)
   File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/samdb.py", line 1057, in 
dns_lookup
     dns_partition=dns_partition)



-- 
Bob Wooldridge
EDM Incorporated