[Samba] Joining Windows 10 Domain Member to Samba AD/DC

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:54:11 -0500
Mark Foley via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> I'm attempting to join a Window 10 computer as a domain member to a
> Samba AC/DC. I'm trying to use a tool from ForensiT
> https://www.forensit.com called Transwiz. This tool is supposed to
> join the Windows computer to the domain AND migrate user profiles
> from a different domain to the new domain.
> 
> I created the domain user on the DC using samba-tool. Then I ran
> transwiz on the Windows computer and answered the various questions
> as to domain name and user, and it began the process, but ended up
> with the error:
> 
>   "The following error occured attempting to connect to the domain
> hprs.locl: The RPC server is unavailable."
> 
> I started rpc on the DC and tried again, but got the same error.

How did you start 'rpc' ?
On a DC 'rpc' is part of 'server services' and as such should have been
running.

> 
> Supposedly this tool does work with Samba DCs. Any idea what the the
> problem could be? It finds the DC just fine.

I think you are going to have to ask forensit for help with this,
unless there is a transwiz user reading this.

Rowland