[NTLUG:Discuss] Asking the right Questions (Samba + AD)

[Chris Cox]

. Daniel wrote:
> Chris?  Haven't heard from ya... I'm prepared to make the write-up for you.

I need your full name to setup an account for you.

> 
> Funny little update to the situation.  I went to add a second machine onto 
> the network.  Same OS.  Same basic configuration.  Danged thing wouldn't 
> join the AD domain properly!  I started doing some side-by-side comparisons 
> between the working machine and the one not working and I finally found the 
> detail that was keeping the thing broken.
> 
> As it turned out, when I "named" the machine, I didn't give it a fully 
> qualified name.  In this case I called is "hostbox" instead of 
> "hostbox.adomain.com"  That little detail was enough to keep Kerberos + 
> Winbind from doing its thing.  Oddly, the machine account was being created 
> but disabled at the same time.  ODD symptoms.  And as before, I searched 
> the net for the error messages, and I found many hits on the topic, but no 
> answers.
> 
> I'm even more motivated than before to write up my findings and to put some 
> procedure together for how to do this so that other people do not suffer as 
> I do.
> 
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