[Samba] First Linux Machine Domain Join

[John R. Graham]

Typo corrected below.

On 11/16/24 15:44, John R. Graham via samba wrote:
> On 11/16/24 11:59, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>> Samba doesn't start any daemons on a Unix domain member, you have to do
>> it yourself.
>
> I did. My Gentoo samba service scripts starts smbd and nmbd. Oh. Ugh. 
> Sorry. Found an untweaked option in the samba service script 
> configuration file--that I had apparently known about while setting up 
> the AD DC--which was necessary to start winbindd. It's now running, 
> and the wbinfo and getent utilities are now behaving better:
>
>     terra ~ # wbinfo --ping-dc
>     checking the NETLOGON for domain[HOME] dc connection to 
> "ceres.home.graham-family.org" succeeded
> terra ~ # getent passwd SAMDOM\\jgraham 
> HOME\jgraham:*:10000:11001::/home/jgraham:/bin/bash
>
>>> Sorry but that is incorrect, it should be 'security = ADS'
>
> Thanks; fixed.
>
> I've been following the Samba Member Server Troubleshooting wiki page 
> and have resolved almost everything. The only thing I've got at the 
> moment that's undiagnosed is getting the domain join to be completely 
> clean:
>
> terra ~ # net ads leave -U Administrator Deleted account for 'TERRA' 
> in realm 'SAMDOM.EXAMPLE.COM terra ~ # net ads join -U Administrator 
> Using short domain name -- SAMDOM Joined 'TERRA' to dns domain 
> 'samdom.example.com' DNS Update for terra.samdom.example.com failed: 
> ERROR_DNS_UPDATE_FAILED DNS update failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
>
> /var/log/samba/log.winbindd shows:
>
> [2024/11/16 15:18:03.248389, 1] 
> ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_getpwuid.c:118(winbindd_getpwuid_recv) 
> Could not convert sid S-0-0: NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER [2024/11/16 
> 15:18:03.248560, 1] 
> ../../source3/winbindd/winbindd_getpwuid.c:83(winbindd_getpwuid_uid2sid_done) 
> Failed with NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER.
>
>> That is usually caused by a mis-configuration of /etc/hosts.
> My /etc/hosts is, I think, exactly correct:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> ::1 localhost
>
> (Note that this machine uses dhcpcd to get its IP address and the 
> contents of /etc/resolv.conf.)
>
> - John