[Samba] Member join, dns issues

Rowland Penny
Wed, 23 Feb 2022 09:36:11 -0000

On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 17:32 -0800, Greg Sloop <gregs--- via samba
wrote:
> Joining a member server "succeeds" but also gives this DNS error.
> ---
> # net ads join -U administrator
> Password for [AD\administrator]:
> Using short domain name -- AD
> Joined 'ABC-1' to dns domain 'ad.xyz.local'

I do hope that the '.local' is just sanitisation, or that you have
turned off avahi.

> DNS Update for abc-1.ad.xyz.local failed: ERROR_DNS_UPDATE_FAILED
> DNS update failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL

This generally occurs if your client does not resolve to a FQDN before
the join.

Rowland