[Samba] Samba 4.11.6 cannot JOIN - 'Could not find machine account'
Rick Hollinbeck
rickh-samba at westernwares.com
Fri Feb 7 17:57:13 UTC 2020
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I'm trying to get a Samba 4.11.6 member DC up and running with two Windows 2008 AD
servers</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Using samba-tool to join, replication proceeds successfully but I'm getting an error about the
machine account missing when it goes to add the A record for the new samba DC.</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Here's a part of the -d4 log from the samba-tool join:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">INFO 2020-02-07 17:38:33,160 pid:2801 /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/samba/join.py #1179:
Adding DNS A record SAMBA1.office.example.com for IPv4 IP: 192
.168.0.13</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">ldb_wrap open of secrets.ldb</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Could not find machine account in secrets database: Failed to fetch machine account
password for OFFICE from both secrets.ldb (Could not find entry to match filter:
'(&(flatname=OFFICE)(objectclass=primaryDomain))' base: 'cn=Primary Domains': No such
object: dsdb_search at ../../source4/dsdb/common/util.c:4733) and from
/var/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb: NT_STATUS_CANT_ACCESS_DOMAIN_INFO</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">ERROR(runtime): uncaught exception - (9003,
'WERR_DNS_ERROR_RCODE_NAME_ERROR')</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">I'm wondering if my smb.conf file is set up correctly for joining and using BIND9_DLZ:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">Here's my smb.conf file:</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"># Global parameters</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">[global]</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> log level = 4</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> netbios name = SAMBA1</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> realm = OFFICE.EXAMPLE.COM</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> server role = active directory domain controller</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> server services = s3fs, rpc, nbt, wrepl, ldap, cldap, kdc, drepl, winbindd, ntp_signd, kcc,
dnsupdate</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> workgroup = OFFICE</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">[sysvol]</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> read only = No</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">[netlogon]</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> path = /var/lib/samba/sysvol/office.example.com/scripts</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt"> read only = No</span></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style=" font-size:10pt">What could be causing this error?</span></font></div>
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