samba - Sep 2010 - Samba4, DNS, and joining clients

Hi, all,

With help from the Samba4/HOWTO and #samba, I was able to set up a Samba
4 domain controller with Bind 9.4.7.  It seems to work for the most
part.

However, my Active Directory DNS never gets entries for any client
machines.  There is an A record for the DC, but never for any clients.

I looked at 'samba_dnsupdate' and see that it gets its input from
private/dns_update_list.  That list also doesn't have any A records for
clients that joined my domain after Samba provisioning.  In fact, that
file hasn't been modified since provisioning.

Maybe I misunderstand the purpose of that list, and it shouldn't have
any additional A records, but in that case I cannot figure out how
clients are supposed to make their way into AD's DNS.

Thoughts?

-- 
Philip

On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 09:20:38PM +0200, Daniel M?ller
wrote:
> Did you add a client to your samba ads?
> This must work on the fly. You find the machine name in the ads directory.
I see my clients in the Active Directory Users and Computers within MMC,
if that's what you mean.

I didn't add them manually -- they must've gotten added automatically
upon joining the domain.

Right now I have two computers in that list, but dns_update_list still
hasn't been updated.

Ideas?

-- 
Philip