[Samba] Can't join domain (LDAP error)

O'Connor, Daniel darius at dons.net.au
Sun Nov 8 23:46:14 UTC 2020



> On 9 Nov 2020, at 09:59, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2020-11-09 at 09:44 +1030, O'Connor, Daniel via samba wrote:
>>> On 9 Nov 2020, at 09:24, O'Connor, Daniel <darius at dons.net.au>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 8 Nov 2020, at 22:49, Rowland penny via samba <
>>>> samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On 08/11/2020 11:52, O'Connor, Daniel wrote:
>>>>>> I know little about Freebsd jails, but if I understand them
>>>>>> correctly, they are very similar to using a chroot on Linux
>>>>>> and I wouldn't want to try and run a second DC in a chroot.
>>>>> Jails are pretty similar to chroot but more secure - like Linux
>>>>> containers.
>>>>> 
>>>> Have you tried setting this up in a VM instead of a jail, if this
>>>> works, it points to something to do with the jail, if it doesn't,
>>>> then it points to a possible problem with Samba on Freebsd, or
>>>> Samba itself. The latter isn't really likely, everything works on
>>>> LInux, though this isn't much comfort to you.
>>> 
>>> It's not particularly urgent so it could be an opportunity to debug
>>> it.
>> 
>> I just realised I used Samba 4.13 in the jail but the host is running
>> 4.11.
>> 
>> I installed 4.11 in the jail and samba-tool works
>> 
>> I am surprised it doesn't work but perhaps 4.13 is broken in some
>> way.
> 
> Feel free to do a 'git bisect' between the two releases to pin that
> down.  That will be the fastest way to resolve this.

OK, are there any special considerations given I am joining it as a DC?
I guess I have to demote first, although I suppose I can join as a normal member for test purposes.

--
Daniel O'Connor
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
 -- Andrew Tanenbaum





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