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

[David Mulder]

On 11/4/21 9:43 AM, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
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> On 11/4/21 10:06, David Mulder via samba wrote:
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>> On 11/4/21 9:01 AM, David Mulder via samba wrote:
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>>> On 11/4/21 8:59 AM, Patrick Goetz via samba wrote:
>>>> Interesting.  Then I'm really confused as to why when I use
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>>>>     samba-tool domain join $domain MEMBER -U administrator
>>>>
>>>> The DNS A entry for the machine isn't created, but when I use
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>>>>     net ads join -U administrator
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>>>> 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 ;)
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>> (facepalm) Or maybe it's because I neglected to call the 
>> _net_ads_join_dns_updates() command in samba-tool domain join member.
>> Let me see what I can do to fix this.
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> While you're looking at this, would it be possible to add code to add a 
> PTR record as well as the A record?  This would match the behavior for 
> Windows AD controllers.
> 
> And as I mentioned in the previous email, anything that's automatically 
> created should be automatically deleted, too, when a machine leaves the 
> domain. Otherwise we're recreating the Windows registry in terms of 
> cruft build up over time. Maybe there's no good way to do this, but I'm 
> pretty sure the Windows AD servers do this as well.
> 
> 

Adding the PTR record as well should be trivial. I'll take a look.

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