[Samba] samba-tool join error : NO DNS zone information found in source domain, not replicating DNS

[Rowland penny]

On 17/02/2021 14:31, Dr. Hansjörg Maurer via samba wrote:
> Hi
>
> we have a samba4 AD-DC running 4.10, which replaced a Win2008 DYC many 
> years ago.
> During this migration  (2008-DC->samba4-dc) sometings seems to went 
> wrong.
> The new DC only misses the a seperate _msdcs.XXX.lan zone, like other 
> samba4 dc show
>
> samba-tool dns zonelist server01 -U Administrator
>
>
>   pszZoneName                 : XXX.lan
>   Flags                       : DNS_RPC_ZONE_DSINTEGRATED 
> DNS_RPC_ZONE_UPDATE_SECURE
>   ZoneType                    : DNS_ZONE_TYPE_PRIMARY
>   Version                     : 50
>   dwDpFlags                   : DNS_DP_AUTOCREATED 
> DNS_DP_FOREST_DEFAULT DNS_DP_ENLISTED
>   pszDpFqdn                   : ForestDnsZones.XXX.lan
>
> the zone _ msdcs is located as subzone under XXX.lan
>
> Now I am trying to join a second dc, the join finishes, but shows
>
> "NO DNS zone information found in source domain, not replicating DNS"
>
> therefore no DNS partions are created on the new server either.
>
> Is there a way to fix it?
> e.g. by reapplying /usr/share/samba/setup/provision_dnszones*.ldif ?
> or running somthing like 
> /usr/lib64/python3.6/site-packages/samba/provision/sambadns.py
>
> The zone XXX.lan itself contains only the default values for 
> servicerecords etc and could be replaced
>

Are you sure your domain didn't start off with an earlier Windows 
version, such as 2K or 2003K ?

I ask this because you seem to have the earlier dns records.

Rowland