[Likewise-open-discuss] [Fwd: Re: failure to join domain]]

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Rafal Szczesniak wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:55:48AM -0700, jsparks at berkeley.edu wrote:
>> Rafal,
>> Sorry for my lack of expertise.
>> I'm familiar with Windoze method of joining.  There, for example, hosts
>> in my domain have FQDN, like shephard.ieor.berkeley.edu.
>> When i join to the campus AD, I specify "campus.berkeley.edu" which also
>> has it's own FQDN.
>>
>>  > nslookup shephard.ieor.berkeley.edu
>> Name:   shephard.ieor.berkeley.edu
>> Address: 128.32.192.74
>>
>>  > nslookup campus.berkeley.edu
>> Name:   campus.berkeley.edu
>> Address: 128.32.68.6
>>  So, both addresses are correct.  I may be off the track, but how do I
>> tell Likewise protocol to tell campus AD to use the
>> shephard.ieor.berkeley.edu as the "Computer DNS Name"?
> 
> That's a separate issue. What we need to make sure is whether specifying
> DNS domain name allows you to connect a valid domain controller.
> On the other hand it's a bit strange domain naming scheme, since you have
> domain campus.berkeley.edu, and member hosts with only berkeley.edu suffix.
> 
> Two questions:
>  - What does ip 128.32.192.74 resolve to ?
>  - Do you have smbclient utility around (part of samba, though commonly
>    available in samba-common or samba-client packages) ?

Rafal, let me just get logs from Jay and I can debug this
easier that way.  See my previous mail.





jerry
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