samba - Jun 2007 - Samba suddenly stops working

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I have a RedHat Enterprise 4 server with samba 3.0.25a rpms installed 
(downloaded from mirror mentioned on samba.org site). I have configured 
krb5.conf & smb.conf.? I can perform a kinit User@REALM.COM & net ads 
status -UUser@REALM.COM perfectly fine. But when attempting to net ads 
join -UUser@REALM.COM, I get an, "error on ads_startup: Cannot resolve 
network address for KDC in requested realm", error.? If there is a KDC
lookup
problem, should it not occur globally ?

I can managed a net ads join if I follow the following steps:
kinit User@REALM.COM
net ads status
net ads join

Only guess that the net ads status ends up causing my crednetials to be cached 
that net ads join makes use of. Just doing a kinit USER@REALM.COM ; net ads 
join, does not work.

Strange, but it works...
 ~Steve

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 10:09, s_aiello@comcast.net
wrote:
> I have a RedHat Enterprise 4 server with samba 3.0.25a rpms installed
> (downloaded from mirror mentioned on samba.org site). I have configured
> krb5.conf & smb.conf.? I can perform a kinit User@REALM.COM & net
ads
> status -UUser@REALM.COM perfectly fine. But when attempting to net ads
> join -UUser@REALM.COM, I get an, "error on ads_startup: Cannot resolve
> network address for KDC in requested realm", error.? If there is a KDC
> lookup problem, should it not occur globally ?