Re: [Samba] Failed to find a writeable DC for domain joining to win2k3 AD DC

2013-08-14 Thread Kevin Field
Sorry, I didn't realize we were carrying on off-list. Figured it out--had been giving samba-tool the hostname for both domain and realm, rather than, hmm, the domain and realm. (I think because in my case my domain and realm have two parts, unlike the HOWTO where they have

[Samba] “Failed to find a writeable DC for domain” joining to win2k3 AD DC

2013-08-13 Thread Kevin Field
I have a CentOS 6.4 box with SerNet's Samba 4.0.8 installed and no smb.conf file yet, as it should be. I want it to become an AD DC in my existing Windows domain, replicating from the existing Windows Server 2003 box. I have SELinux enabled and want it to stay that way. I'm getting this error

Re: [Samba] Failed to find a writeable DC for domain joining to win2k3 AD DC

2013-08-13 Thread Daniel Müller
Look at your /etc/resolv.conf There should be an entry of your existing DC in it ex.: nameserver your.existing.dc And you should be able to ping the existing DC. Greetings Daniel --- EDV Daniel Müller Leitung EDV Tropenklinik Paul-Lechler-Krankenhaus