Thanks I finally figured it out. One of my LDAP services was down. -----Original Message----- From: Christoph Beyer [mailto:chbeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 2:51 AM To: Seldon, Adrian (ES) Cc: samba@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: EXT :Re: SAMBA 3.5.5 issue Hi, you could try to get a token from your AD controller first with kinit (check with klist) or use the debug function (net -d 3 ads join [...]) And see what the exact reason for the failure is ... best regards ~christoph -- /* Christoph Beyer | Office: Building 2b / 23 *\ * DESY | Phone: 040-8998-2317 * * - IT - | Fax: 040-8998-4060 * \* 22603 Hamburg | http://www.desy.de */ On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, Seldon, Adrian (ES) wrote: > I'm trying to add my Solaris 10 server to active directory on Windows 2003 and I keep getting the same error that samba failed to join the DC. I've checked the configuration file under /etc/samba/smb.conf and it's the same as my other server that's working fine. What else could I check to verify my configuration? > > Thanks, > Adrian > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba