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

[Mark Foley]

On Wed Dec 13 18:23:52 2023 Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2023-12-13 at 14:54 -0500, Mark Foley via samba 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.
> > 
> > Supposedly this tool does work with Samba DCs. Any idea what the the
> > problem
> > could be? It finds the DC just fine.
> > 
> > Thanks --Mark
>
> I would try and get a detailed log from the client (or at the very
> least the very exact time it fails), level 10 log from the server and a
> matching network trace from time-syncronised machines.
>
> Then look at what packet is failing and what the server logs say at
> that exact time.
>
> Take the capture on the client if you can get a high-res time for the
> failure there, or on the server if you can't (to better align the
> failure with the server logs).
>
> This sounds like a lot, but even without understanding everything this
> often gives really good clues, or something you can digest, sanitise
> and post. 
>
> Andrew Bartlett

OK, I'll certainly give that a try.