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2016 Apr 12
2
net join fail
I am trying to reconfigure a samba server to use authentication from the University domain.
* smbd seems to start OK
* net ads testjoin is fine
* net ads join -U xxUSERNAME createcomputer="xxCOMPUTER" fails with:
Failed to join domain: failed to set machine spn: Constraint violation
(where xxTEXT indicates redaction - sorry I'm not sure what's
confidential and what isn't)
xxUSERNAME and xxCOMPUTER are valid (changing either changes the error
message).
smb.conf starts:...
2016 Apr 12
0
net join fail
On 12/04/16 12:09, John Rowe wrote:
> I am trying to reconfigure a samba server to use authentication from the University domain.
>
> * smbd seems to start OK
> * net ads testjoin is fine
> * net ads join -U xxUSERNAME createcomputer="xxCOMPUTER" fails with:
> Failed to join domain: failed to set machine spn: Constraint violation
>
> (where xxTEXT indicates redaction - sorry I'm not sure what's
> confidential and what isn't)
>
> xxUSERNAME and xxCOMPUTER are valid (changing either changes the error
> m...
2016 Apr 12
1
net join fail
Thanks for the reply Rowland:
On Tue, 2016-04-12 at 12:21 +0100, Rowland penny wrote:
>
> Try again without the 'createcomputer="xxCOMPUTER"', your computer
> seems
> to already exist:
>
> The machine account already exists in the specified OU.
I am told this is in fact a necessary feature: xxCOMPUTER is a class of
computers we are allowed to be one.
John