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

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 02:04 -0500, Mark Foley via samba wrote:
> On Wed Dec 13 15:24:15 2023 Rowland Penny <
> rpenny at samba.org
> > wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Slackware has a startup script for everything in /etc/rc.d. The one
> (I think)
> for rpc is rc.rpc which was not marked as executable, and even if so
> marked is
> not started by any other parent script. I marked it as executable and
> ran it and
> it launched: "/sbin/rpcbind -l -w" and "/sbin/rpc.statd". I assume
> those are the
> right processes for the rpc service (but maybe not).

This is not Samba, nor even DCE/RPC, it is another unix-historical RPC
system (ONCRPC) used essentially only for NFS.

That is good news and bad news, the good news is that it won't have any
impact on Samba, positive or negative, the bad news is the same :-)

Andrew Bartlett


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