[Samba] Can't find machine account

[Robert A Wooldridge]

On 07/18/2019 11:04 AM, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
> I have never had to deal with a W2K AD server, but from my 
> understanding W2K didn't have the DNS records in AD, so I wondered if 
> yours didn't either. I am running out of ideas now.
>
> Have you tried Tim's patch ?
>
> Just in case you don't know how to apply the patch, it is pretty 
> simple, it just involves commenting out three lines, so it might be 
> easier to open 'join.py 
> (/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/join.py on my DC), find these 
> lines:
>
>             if ctx.dns_backend != "NONE":
>                 ctx.join_add_dns_records()
>                 ctx.join_replicate_new_dns_records()
This seems to have worked.  I got a successful join. But samba is not 
running.  When I do systemctl status samba I get:
Unit samba.service could not be found.

When I do systemctl status smbd I get:

● smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon
    Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; enabled; vendor 
preset: enabled)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2019-07-18 11:21:22 
CDT; 6min ago
      Docs: man:smbd(8)
            man:samba(7)
            man:smb.conf(5)
   Process: 992 
ExecStartPre=/usr/share/samba/update-apparmor-samba-profile 
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   Process: 1002 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd --foreground 
--no-process-group $SMBDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
  Main PID: 1002 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 18 11:21:22 athena systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon...
Jul 18 11:21:22 athena smbd[1002]: [2019/07/18 11:21:22.721995,  0] 
../source3/smbd/server.c:1803(main)
Jul 18 11:21:22 athena smbd[1002]:   server role = 'active directory 
domain controller' not compatible with running smbd standalone.
Jul 18 11:21:22 athena smbd[1002]:   You should start 'samba' instead, 
and it will control starting smbd if required
Jul 18 11:21:22 athena systemd[1]: smbd.service: Main process exited, 
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 18 11:21:22 athena systemd[1]: smbd.service: Failed with result 
'exit-code'.
Jul 18 11:21:22 athena systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.


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Bob Wooldridge
EDM Incorporated