Martin Mielke wrote:
Hi all,
some weeks ago I posted the following message to the Samba list but haven't seen any replies so far... This might be a bit OT but I need to find an answer soon and surely someone here has faced this problem before...
I need to setup a PDC on Samba 3. To achieve this I followed the steps described on the Samba docs and on some other websites I found after googling for a while. From the Samba side everything seems to be OK: ---- Apr 3 15:30:06 v601 nmbd[11664]: Samba server V601 is now a domain master browser for workgroup MYDOMAIN.COM on subnet 192.168.1.11 ----
So far, so good... it was an easy task.
Now problems arise when I want the WinXP Professional clients to join that domain (full disclosure here: I'm a Windows user by "market contamination" so maybe I'm overseeing something obvious during the process).
This is the error message I get when trying to join the domain: ---- DNS was successfully queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate a domain controller for domain mydomain.com:
The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.mydomain.com
The following domain controllers were identified by the query:
v601.mydomain.com
Common causes of this error include:
- Host (A) records that map the name of the domain controller to its IP addresses are missing or contain incorrect addresses.
- Domain controllers registered in DNS are not connected to the network or are not running.
For information about correcting this problem, click Help. ----
First off, I had to manually add that SRV record on my named.conf. I've been told that all needed entries are created automatically on the DNS when you are on a Windows environment...
Secondly, AFAIK the DNS has been setup correctly for both direct and reverse queries. That's why I must raise an eyebrow when I see such an error message popping up
So... is there anything I have forgotten to set up things correctly??
TIA and regards,
Martin
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Sorry to touch basics but .... Is your record of the form? _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.mydomain.com IN SRV 0 100 389 <PDC server>.mydomain.com and port 389 is open on server It was a long time ago I set this up... but I do vaguely remember something anout DOMAIN names, and PDC names needing to map onto DNS server names and zone names, but my memory may be playing tricks :-)