samba - Dec 2023 - Joining Windows 10 Domain Member to Samba AD/DC

On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:54:11 -0500
Mark Foley via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> I'm attempting to join a Window 10 computer as a domain member to a
> Samba AC/DC. I'm trying to use a tool from ForensiT
> https://www.forensit.com called Transwiz. This tool is supposed to
> join the Windows computer to the domain AND migrate user profiles
> from a different domain to the new domain.
> 
> I created the domain user on the DC using samba-tool. Then I ran
> transwiz on the Windows computer and answered the various questions
> as to domain name and user, and it began the process, but ended up
> with the error:
> 
>   "The following error occured attempting to connect to the domain
> hprs.locl: The RPC server is unavailable."
> 
> I started rpc on the DC and tried again, but got the same error.
How did you start 'rpc' ?
On a DC 'rpc' is part of 'server services' and as such should
have been
running.
> 
> Supposedly this tool does work with Samba DCs. Any idea what the the
> problem could be? It finds the DC just fine.
I think you are going to have to ask forensit for help with this,
unless there is a transwiz user reading this.

Rowland

On Wed Dec 13 15:24:15 2023 Rowland Penny <rpenny at samba.org>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:54:11 -0500
> Mark Foley via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm attempting to join a Window 10 computer as a domain member to
a
> > Samba AC/DC. I'm trying to use a tool from ForensiT
> > https://www.forensit.com called Transwiz. This tool is supposed to
> > join the Windows computer to the domain AND migrate user profiles
> > from a different domain to the new domain.
> > 
> > I created the domain user on the DC using samba-tool. Then I ran
> > transwiz on the Windows computer and answered the various questions
> > as to domain name and user, and it began the process, but ended up
> > with the error:
> > 
> >   "The following error occured attempting to connect to the
domain
> > hprs.locl: The RPC server is unavailable."
> > 
> > I started rpc on the DC and tried again, but got the same error.
>
> How did you start 'rpc' ?
> On a DC 'rpc' is part of 'server services' and as such
should have been
> running.
Slackware has a startup script for everything in /etc/rc.d. The one (I think)
for rpc is rc.rpc which was not marked as executable, and even if so marked is
not started by any other parent script. I marked it as executable and ran it and
it launched: "/sbin/rpcbind -l -w" and "/sbin/rpc.statd". I
assume those are the
right processes for the rpc service (but maybe not).
> > 
> > Supposedly this tool does work with Samba DCs. Any idea what the the
> > problem could be? It finds the DC just fine.
>
> I think you are going to have to ask forensit for help with this,
> unless there is a transwiz user reading this.
> Rowland
I think you're right! I hope I don't have to migrate domain users
manually.