[Samba] Using samba-tool to join a linux file server to the domain doesn't appear to work

[Patrick Goetz]

Interesting.  Then I'm really confused as to why when I use

    samba-tool domain join $domain MEMBER -U administrator

The DNS A entry for the machine isn't created, but when I use

    net ads join -U administrator

it is. (same domain, same host joining)

On 11/4/21 09:53, David Mulder via samba wrote:
> On 11/4/21 8:47 AM, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:>
>> No! No, you don't. It's way better to have one way to do things, but 
>> have it work correctly.  There's nothing wrong with
>>
>>    net ads leave
>>
>> other than it doesn't take care of cleaning up DNS.
>>
> 
> What you don't see under the hood, is that there *is* only one way of 
> doing it. samba-tool domain join member is just calling net ads join, 
> and samba-tool domain leave (the command I'm just now adding), just 
> calls net ads leave. The point was, that the samba-tool command to join 
> was confusing, since it never actually worked. So I pointed it to net 
> ads join (using python bindings to the actual c call that net ads join 
> makes).
> Adding these samba-tool commands eliminates the confusion, and prevents 
> having 2 'correct' ways of doing it, since they call the same exact code 
> paths.
>