[Samba] clients not connecting to samba shares

[Gary Dale]

On 2023-04-02 02:49, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
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> On 02/04/2023 04:54, Gary Dale via samba wrote:
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>> I could, but that seems like overkill. A complete second (virtually 
>> identical) system to administer and update just to hive off the 
>> authentication task.
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> To be honest, I would run two DC's just for authentication and other 
> Samba machines as Unix domain members.
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> However, I cannot force you to do anything, all I can do is advise you 
> of best practices, neither Samba or Microsoft recommend using a DC for 
> anything other than authentication.
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> Rowland
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I've set up a Debian/Stable VM with the backports in a minimal install. 
Then I added an ssh server and connected to it (so I can cut & paste to 
the Konsole session), and did the Debian distribution-specific 
installation. I removed the installer's smb.conf and ran the interactive 
provisioning.  TheLibrarian is already a

I then figured I'd try the Create a reverse zone but that failed:

# samba-tool dns zonecreate  DC1 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa -U Administrator
Failed to connect host 192.168.1.13 on port 135 - 
NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED
Failed to connect host 192.168.1.13 (DC1) on port 135 - 
NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED.
ERROR: Connecting to DNS RPC server DC1 failed with (3221226038, 'The 
transport-connection attempt was refused by the remote system.')

The message shows that the DC1 name resolved properly. I'm not aware of 
anything blocking port 135 - this is a clean install to a new VM.  Any 
ideas on what's going on?