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

[Patrick Goetz]

On 11/4/21 10:13, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-11-04 at 10:05 -0500, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>>
>> On 11/4/21 10:01, David Mulder via samba wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/4/21 8:59 AM, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>>>> 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)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, you have to be using samba-tool domain join member in 4.15+.
>>> The
>>> samba-tool command is completely broken before that release ;)
>>>
>>
>> I'm using 4.15.1
>>
>> See my email earlier today demonstrating the issue, which I observed
>> yesterday but couldn't test again then because I didn't know about
>> `samba-tool dns` which, btw, works great (good design!) save for the
>> unexplained "options" thing and the inexplicable data requirement
>> for
>> deleting a record.
> 
> They are documented and are not inexplicable, I pointed you at how to
> get to the samba-tool help.
>

You did; thank you. I'm operating in burn out mode right now and didn't 
check this after I figured out how to do what I needed to do.



> Rowland
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