[Samba] Internal DNS not coming up in 4.18.0

[Rowland Penny]

On 24/03/2023 09:57, Anantha Raghava via samba wrote:
> 
> On 24/03/23 2:52 pm, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>
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>> On 24/03/2023 09:16, Anantha Raghava via samba wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How can I be so foolish? I just can't imagine.
>>>
>>> The issue was in smb.conf file. the the server's "netbios name" was 
>>> reading as AD instead of DC, which was the actual host name. 
>>> Basically I had copied contents of smb.conf file from old server 
>>
>> Why were you copying the smb.conf from one DC to another ?
>> The join would create the required smb.conf and if you had mentioned 
>> that you had done this, I would have asked why.
> Normal practice. Instead of typing those 4 or 5 additional lines for 
> RFC, TLS, NTLM and other security related settings, copying the whole 
> file was easy. Copying the file is fine, but not observing the "netbios 
> name" and Host name was a blunder.
>> Rowland
>>

Can I suggest that it would be better to add those lines to a separate 
.conf file and then add then with an 'include' line e.g.

include = /path/to/additional.conf

Which you could add during the join with:
--option='include = /path/to/additional.conf'

Rowland