[Samba] IPV4 Only Environments Kpasswd5 Port 464 Not Showing when ipv6.disable=1 on Kernel CLI

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Fri Jan 10 10:20:32 UTC 2025


On Fri, 10 Jan 2025 01:55:57 -0700
Gregory Carter via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> I noticed that kpasswd5 (port 464) isn't showing up on subnets where
> IPv6 is not allowed.
> 
> So I cannot do any joins for these Linux boxes.
> 
> Is there a Global switch I can use for samba to just startup and
> listen on IPV4 only?
> 
> It seems inconsistent as all the other services don't seem to be
> affected by this switch and appropriately bind to the interface.
> 
> How do I get kpasswd5 up on IPV4 only?

My ISP does not use IPv6, so I regularly turn IPv6 off on my network
and I have no problem joining Linux computers to the domain. 

How are you attempting to join the machines and it will probably help
if you post a sample smb.conf that is used during the join.

Rowland
 



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