Looking for Samba help - connecting to AD

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:02:29AM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I'm running into a roadblock in making a samba server part of an
> existing active directory network. The intention is to authenticate
> against an existing AD server.
> 
> I appear to have Kerberos set up OK; `kinit Administrator-M7a7s9M81/P1mVrvS+03Ww at public.gmane.org`
> works fine, accepts the admin password of the server and rejects bad
> password attempts.

I do it without the hell that is berberos.

> But when I try `net ads join -U Administrator`I get
> Failed to join Domain: filed to find DC for domain MYREALM.LOCAL
> 
> Any pointers are appreciated.

I just configured sambe with security=domain and the password server IP.
Then I added the samba macine to the domain using:
net rpc join member -U administrator

It should prompt for the domain controller admin's password.

Assuming you set the domain/workgroup name correctly in the samba config,
it should join the domain.  After this, you can authenticate.

So pretty simple, and no need for kerberos to get involved.

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Len Sorensen
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