[Samba] Unable to net ads join samba to an active directory domain Failed to join domain: failed to connect to AD: Can't contact LDAP server

[Rowland Penny]

On Tue, 2021-11-16 at 15:10 -0800, Michael Evans wrote:
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> What sections do you believe are missing, and how would those impact
> joining
> the active directory domain?
> 
> Shares are missing, but none have been setup yet, that's a future me
> problem.

That wasn't your problem.

> 
> ID mapping is based on RFC2307 and stored within the active
> directory; is "
> idmap config ad" sufficient for that task?  That is my understanding
> from
> the Samba AD Domain Member documentation.

Then read it again, this time follow the hyperlinks

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> I did not "optionally map the domain Administrator account to the
> local root
> account on a Unix domain member.", as I don't need that account
> authenticating to operate as root on each server.  I have ssh and
> keybased
> auth already.

That isn't what it is added for, it allows you to set permissions from
Windows, you need it.

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> All of the samba services are presently turned off, though I did try
> starting up winbind at one point to see if that's why the join had
> failed.
> 

What OS is this ? Is something like a firewall getting in the way ?

Rowland