[cifs-discuss] smbadm failed to find any domain controllers

[Evgeny Chumak]

Natalie!

Thank you very much for advice! There are many DNS servers in  
customer's environment and probably we are using wrong one. I will  
check it!

Evgeny Chumak
MTS CEM Engagement Architect,
Sun Microsystems, CIS




On 29.05.2008, at 3:10, Natalie Li wrote:

> The error message "failed to find any domain controllers" indicates  
> that the DNS SRV RR lookup for DCs of the 'mydomain.ru' domain has  
> failed.  If you have confirmed that a correct DNS server has been  
> specified in the resolver, then you might want to make sure the  
> following record is present in the DNS database.
>
> Forward Lookup Zones
>   _msdcs.mydomain.ru
>    dc
>      _tcp
>          _ldap
> If the above SRV RR doesn't exist, it will result in DC discovery  
> error.
>
> BTW, being able to resolve name<->ip of the domain controller does  
> NOT automatically imply that the DNS SRV RR lookup would work.
> name<->ip resolution searches for the domain controller's DNS A or  
> PTR RRs while the SRV RR lookup searches for the SRV RR record as  
> mentioned above.
>
> Regards,
>
> Natalie
>
>
> Evgeny Chumak wrote:
>
>> Hello Natalie!
>>
>> thanks a lot for reply!
>>
>> Yes, i have specified correct  DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf
>>
>> domain  mydomain.ru
>> nameserver 192.168.16.132
>> nameserver 192.168.175.128
>>
>> and  i can resolve names of DNS controllers. For example:
>> ping  ms-dcs.mydomain.ru
>> ms-dcs.mydomain.ru is alive
>>
>> And all DNS servers are running (this is production Windows AD  
>> environment).
>>
>> I didn't find  error "failed to find any domain controllers"
>> in trouble shooting guide. Do you mean that this error should be  
>> connected with DNS  configuraion?
>> Do you know how can i switch on  extended verbosity mode for smbd  
>> logging (or someting like this) to see in messages detailed error  
>> message?
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