2009/8/13 Chartier, Prescott W CIV NUWC NWPT <prescott.chart...@navy.mil>: > We have been running Samba v3.0.32 On Red Hat Linux for probably 2 > years now (or since it was released). Recently over a three week > period, all the Windows clients slowly dropped from the domain one by > one and we are unable to get them to re-join the domain. We are still > able to map to drives and printers on the Samba server and use them with > no problem, but cannot join the domain. We need to be able authenticate > users on the domain and cannot. There have been no changes to the > system or the network involved, which is a standalone network with no > access to the internet. Yet obviously SOMETHING has changed, we just > cannot figure it out. When we attempt to join the domain, we get the > error below: > > > ************************** Begin error message > ****************************** > NOTE: This information is intended for a network administrator. If you > are not your network's administrator, notify the administrator that you > received this information, which has been recorded in the file > C:\Windows\debug\dcdiag.txt. > > The domain name simpledomain might be a NetBIOS domain name. If this is > the case, verify that the domain name is properly registered with WINS. > > If you are certain that the name is not a NetBIOS domain name, the > following information can help you troubleshoot your DNS configuration. > > The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service > location (SRV) resource record used to locate a domain controller for > domain simpledomain: > > The error was: "This operation returned because the timeout period > expired." > (error code 0x000005B4 ERROR_TIMEOUT) > > The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs:simpledomain > > The DNS servers used by this computer for name resolution are not > responding. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with the > following IP addresses: > > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx > > Verify that this computer is connected to the network, that these are > the correct DNS server IP addresses, and that at least one of the DNS > servers is running. > > ************************** End error message > ****************************** > > Please understand that we have checked and recheck the DNS and both are > responding as one would expect. We are able to resolve the simpledomain > to its correct IP address on all the affected machines, so that isn't > the problem. We do not use ldap, this is just a simple implementation > of Samba. Anyone with any ideas?? > > Thanks for any assistance you may provide. > > Prescott ... > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba >
hi, are you sure, that those lines are in /etc/nsswitch.conf hosts: files dns networks: files dns otherwise ping and co. (gethostbyname) don't resolve over dns. Greetings, Björn -- To boldly go where no man has gone before ... I'll wait there with touristinformation -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba