Thank you Dale, it worked.
-----Original Message----- From: Dale Schroeder [mailto:d...@briannassaladdressing.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:50 PM To: Rajeev R. Veedu Cc: samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] problem for joining the domain. On 03/06/2012 9:10 AM, Rajeev R. Veedu wrote: > I am having a problem to join one of my machine, to the 2003 AD. I > have used the same config on another machine and it works fine. I am > not able to figure out where I am going wrong. I would appreciates if > you could help. My samba version is 3.6.3-44 on Centos 6 > > This is what I get > > [root@scan_srv2 tmp]# net ads join -U Administrator Enter > Administrator's password: > Using short domain name -- DOMAIN > Joined 'SCAN_SRV2' to realm 'DOMAIN.com' > DNS Update for scan_srv2.DOMAIN.com failed: ERROR_DNS_INVALID_NAME For DNS, underscores "_" are not a valid character in the hostname; changing to a hyphen "-" should stop that error message. Android phones are notorious for causing this error with DHCP/DNS. More info: http://networkadminkb.com/KB/a156/windows-2003-dns-and-the-underscore.aspx Dale > DNS update failed! > > My smb.config is > > > workgroup = DOMAIN > admin users = Administrator > realm = DOMAIN.COM > server string = Linux Samba File Server > security = ADS > encrypt passwords = yes > preferred master = no > template shell = /bin/false > template homedir = /home/%D/%U > idmap uid = 10000-20000 > idmap gid = 10000-20000 > enhanced browsing = no > winbind use default domain = yes > winbind enum users = Yes > winbind enum groups = Yes > winbind nested groups = Yes > winbind separator = / > server string = scan_srv2 > netbios name = scan_srv2 > password server = 192.168.1.223 > debuglevel = 10 > [Data] > comment = P drive and T drive > path = /Data/Data-01/ > writable = yes > guestok = yes > nt acl support = yes > #inherit acls = yes > #inherit permissions = yes > > My krb5.conf > > [logging] > default = FILE:/var/log/krb5libs.log > kdc = FILE:/var/log/krb5kdc.log > admin_server = FILE:/var/log/kadmind.log > > [libdefaults] > default_realm = DOMAIN.COM > dns_lookup_realm = true > dns_lookup_kdc = true > ticket_lifetime = 24h > renew_lifetime = 7d > forwardable = yes > > [realms] > DOMAIN.COM = { > kdc = projects01.DOMAIN.com > admin_server = 192.168.1.223 > default_domain = DOMAIN.com > } > > [domain_realm] > .kerberos.server = DOMAIN.COM > .DOMAIN.com = DOMAIN.COM > [kdc] > profile = /var/kerberos/krb5kdc/kdc.conf > > [appdefaults] > pam = { > debug = false > ticket_lifetime = 36000 > renew_lifetime = 36000 > forwardable = true > krb4_convert = false > } > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba