[Samba] DNS Update problems

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 11:40:19 +0000
Stephen Brandli <steve at brandli.com> wrote:

> Roland, thanks for the reply.
> 
> >I think I can explain that, does /etc/hosts contain a line similar to
> >this:
> >x.x.x.x member.samdom.example.com member
> 
> Yes.  /etc/hosts:
> 
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 10.65.187.15 tower.domain.brandli.com tower
> ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> Ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> Ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> 
> Where .15 is tower's ip address, and domain.brandli.com is the domain.
> 
> Could this be permissions on something? 

I do not think so, I only get the join dns error if /etc/hosts isn't
configured correctly. I take it that '10.65.187.15' is a fixed IP. 

> I first tried to join with
> brandli\steve, a user in the domain administrator's group.  This
> failed.  I then tried with administrator and this work.  I've always
> joined machines with brandli\steve before.  Don't know if this is
> relevant.

Using a user that is a member of Domain Admins should work, at least it
works for me, but I kinit first and then use kerberos.

Rowland