[Samba] Specifying the OU upon join

[David Salib, Mr]

Hello,

I'm stumped. I'm trying to join a machine to a domain and I get this :

# samba-tool domain join campus.mcgill.ca DC -Udavid...@CAMPUS.MCGILL.CA
Finding a writeable DC for domain 'campus.mcgill.ca'
Found DC DC01.campus.MCGILL.CA
Password for [david...@CAMPUS.MCGILL.CA]:
workgroup is CAMPUS
realm is campus.MCGILL.CA
checking sAMAccountName
Adding CN=SMB4TEST,OU=Domain Controllers,DC=campus,DC=MCGILL,DC=CA
Join failed - cleaning up
checking sAMAccountName
ERROR(ldb): uncaught exception - LDAP error 19 LDAP_CONSTRAINT_VIOLATION - <0000207C: AtrErr: DSID-03152CAF, #1:
0: 0000207C: DSID-03152CAF, problem 1005 (CONSTRAINT_ATT_TYPE), data 0, Att 2000d (displayName)
> <>
File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/__init__.py", line 175, in _run
return self.run(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/netcmd/domain.py", line 552, in run
machinepass=machinepass, use_ntvfs=use_ntvfs, dns_backend=dns_backend)
File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 1104, in join_DC
ctx.do_join()
File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 1007, in do_join
ctx.join_add_objects()
File "/usr/local/samba/lib/python2.7/site-packages/samba/join.py", line 499, in join_add_objects
ctx.samdb.add(rec)

Seems to me like changing the OU which I'm trying to join would fix the issue, but I can't find the switch to specify it (or the format).

Thanks,

D




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David Salib
Systems Administrator
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

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[Matthieu Patou]

I don't think this is related to the OU, it seems that you have already
an object in your forest that has the displayName SMB4TEST$, can you
check and maybe change the name of your new DC ?

Matthieu.

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Matthieu Patou
Samba Team
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[David Salib, Mr]

Hello Mathieu,

Sorry for the delay, I'm sure you are dying to get news of this exciting problem. I had to give some time to something else.

You're right, there is an object SMB4TEST, turns out I created it when I first ran the join command. It was added to the computers in the root of the domain. The bizarre thing is, I learnt that I don't have the rights to create a DC. I'll look into it with the local infrastructure team, let me know if you would like more details about this for any reason.

Anyhow, I still need to create the machine in a specific OU, whether I join as a member or as a DC. Is there a switch to do this?

Thanks,

David Salib