Thank you Dale, it worked.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dale Schroeder [mailto:dale at BriannasSaladDressing.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:50 PM
To: Rajeev R. Veedu
Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] problem for joining the domain.
On 03/06/2012 9:10 AM, Rajeev R. Veedu wrote:> I am having a problem to join one of my machine, to the 2003 AD. I
> have used the same config on another machine and it works fine. I am
> not able to figure out where I am going wrong. I would appreciates if
> you could help. My samba version is 3.6.3-44 on Centos 6
>
> This is what I get
>
> [root at scan_srv2 tmp]# net ads join -U Administrator Enter
> Administrator's password:
> Using short domain name -- DOMAIN
> Joined 'SCAN_SRV2' to realm 'DOMAIN.com'
> DNS Update for scan_srv2.DOMAIN.com failed: ERROR_DNS_INVALID_NAME
For DNS, underscores "_" are not a valid character in the hostname;
changing to a hyphen "-" should stop that error message.
Android phones are notorious for causing this error with DHCP/DNS.
More info:
http://networkadminkb.com/KB/a156/windows-2003-dns-and-the-underscore.aspx
Dale
> DNS update failed!
>
> My smb.config is
>
>
> workgroup = DOMAIN
> admin users = Administrator
> realm = DOMAIN.COM
> server string = Linux Samba File Server
> security = ADS
> encrypt passwords = yes
> preferred master = no
> template shell = /bin/false
> template homedir = /home/%D/%U
> idmap uid = 10000-20000
> idmap gid = 10000-20000
> enhanced browsing = no
> winbind use default domain = yes
> winbind enum users = Yes
> winbind enum groups = Yes
> winbind nested groups = Yes
> winbind separator = /
> server string = scan_srv2
> netbios name = scan_srv2
> password server = 192.168.1.223
> debuglevel = 10
> [Data]
> comment = P drive and T drive
> path = /Data/Data-01/
> writable = yes
> guestok = yes
> nt acl support = yes
> #inherit acls = yes
> #inherit permissions = yes
>
> My krb5.conf
>
> [logging]
> default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log
> kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log
> admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log
>
> [libdefaults]
> default_realm = DOMAIN.COM
> dns_lookup_realm = true
> dns_lookup_kdc = true
> ticket_lifetime = 24h
> renew_lifetime = 7d
> forwardable = yes
>
> [realms]
> DOMAIN.COM = {
> kdc = projects01.DOMAIN.com
> admin_server = 192.168.1.223
> default_domain = DOMAIN.com
> }
>
> [domain_realm]
> .kerberos.server = DOMAIN.COM
> .DOMAIN.com = DOMAIN.COM
> [kdc]
> profile = /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf
>
> [appdefaults]
> pam = {
> debug = false
> ticket_lifetime = 36000
> renew_lifetime = 36000
> forwardable = true
> krb4_convert = false
> }
>
>
