Domain: iDomain.web Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Network: 10.68.105.XXX I have just reconfigured my network to use ubuntu 8 server (hardy) /w samba as primary domain controller. I followed a guide to complete this and it works great. My Windows XP machines join fine. But I have a Windows 2003 Server computer that will host the user profiles and as my admin desktop pc (10.68.105.210) that I want to make a slave controller to my samba domain but when I run dcpromo.exe it says "DNS name does not exist.". I have three DNS servers on my network. The internet modem (192.168.0.1), netscreen router (10.68.105.254) and the ubuntu server (10.68.105.200) its self. I'm sort of lost because I'm not sure what question I should even ask. I can ping saturn5 but i can't ping saturn5.idomain.web <Heres my /etc/hosts> 127.0.0.1 localhost 10.68.105.200 saturn5.idomain.web saturn5 # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts <And my /etc/samba/smb.conf> [global] workgroup = idomain.web netbios name = saturn5 server string = Linux NT Domain Controller passdb backend = tdbsam passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n . passwd chat debug = Yes security = user username map = /etc/samba/smbusers unix password sync = Yes log level = 3 name resolve order = wins bcast hosts printcap name = CUPS add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r %u add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false/ -d /var/lib/nobody %u shutdown script = shutdown -r now abort shutdown script = shutdown -c logon script = /home/samba/netlogon/logon.cmd logon path = \\10.68.105.200\usr\%U logon drive = H: logon home = \\10.68.105.200\%U domain logons = Yes preferred master = Yes wins support = Yes ldap ssl = no eventlog list = \\10.68.105.200\netlogon\event.log idmap uid = 15000-20000 idmap gid = 15000-20000 template homedir = /home/%U printcup name = CUPS printing = CUPS [homes] comment = Home valid users = %S read only = No browseable = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba guest ok = Yes printable = Yes browseable = No [netlogon] comment = Network Logon Service path = /home/samba/netlogon valid users = %U admin users = root, Administrator read only = No [syslog] comment = Linx NT Domain Service path = /home/samba/syslog valid users = %U admin users = root, Administrator read only = No [profile] comment = User profiles path = /home/users read only = No create mask = 0600 directory mask = 0700 [usr] comment = Windows Roaming Profiles Folder path = /profiles admin users = root, administrator write list = %U read only = No [website] comment = Apache2 Web Files path = /var/www valid users = %U admin users = root, administrator write list = %U read only = No <Details from dcpromo.exe failure> The following error occurred when DNS was queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate a domain controller for domain idomain.web: The error was: "DNS name does not exist." (error code 0x0000232B RCODE_NAME_ERROR) The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.idomain.web Common causes of this error include the following: - The DNS SRV records required to locate a domain controller for the domain are not registered in DNS. These records are registered with a DNS server automatically when a domain controller is added to a domain. They are updated by the domain controller at set intervals. This computer is configured to use DNS servers with following IP addresses: 192.168.0.1 10.68.105.254 10.68.105.200 - One or more of the following zones do not include delegation to its child zone: idomain.web web . (the root zone) For information about correcting this problem, click Help. Thank for the help. Joel T Greene

After messing with bind9 configuration I found that it needed some SRV added to the bind9 configuration. But now running dcpromo.exe is returning: DNS was successfully queried for the service location (SRV) resource record used to locate a domain controller for domain idomain.web: The query was for the SRV record for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.idomain.web The following domain controllers were identified by the query: saturn5.idomain.web Common causes of this error include: - Host (A) records that map the name of the domain controller to its IP addresses are missing or contain incorrect addresses. - Domain controllers registered in DNS are not connected to the network or are not running. For information about correcting this problem, click Help. I am clueless because it says query was successful... I have noticed that my DNS is resolving the domain name to ip but functions like ping and tracert say the host is not reached. Heres my bind9 zone configuration: $TTL 604800 @ IN SOA idomain.web. saturn5.idomain.web. ( 2008082002 10800 3600 604800 38400 ) IN NS saturn5 IN NS saturn5.idomain.web. IN MX 10 mail.idomain.web. IN A 10.68.105.200 www IN A 10.68.105.200 mail IN A 10.68.105.200 saturn5 IN A 10.68.105.200 saturn5 IN A 10.68.105.200 b1c20c8b-fd3b-4a13-842e-0589bba869e6._msdcs IN CNAME srvinfra workstation1 IN A 10.68.105.21 _gc._tcp IN SRV 0 100 3268 saturn5 _ldap._tcp.gc._msdcs IN SRV 0 100 389 saturn5 _ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.gc._msdcs IN SRV 0 100 389 saturn5 _ldap._tcp IN SRV 0 100 389 saturn5 _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs IN SRV 0 100 389 saturn5 _ldap._tcp.pdc._msdcs IN SRV 0 100 389 saturn5 _ldap._tcp.ce48573f-4b52-4d77-a8b8-54701e4e3c6a.domains._msdcs IN SRV 0 100 389 saturn5 _ldap._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.dc._msdcs IN SRV 0 100 389 saturn5 _kerberos._tcp IN SRV 0 100 88 saturn5 _kerberos._tcp.dc._msdcs IN SRV 0 100 88 saturn5 _kerberos._tcp.Default-First-Site-Name._sites.dc._msdcs IN SRV 0 100 88 saturn5 _kerberos._udp IN SRV 0 100 88 saturn5 _kerberos-master._tcp IN SRV 0 100 88 saturn5 _kerberos-master._udp IN SRV 0 100 88 saturn5 _kpasswd._tcp IN SRV 0 100 464 saturn5 _kpasswd._udp IN SRV 0 100 464 saturn5 _kerberos IN TXT IDOMAIN.WEB Joel T Greene