Overview#
The Samba Project
provides the Net ads utility to create the Keytab and join a Windows Domain.
net ads join#
The Samba Project provides this utility to create the Keytab and join a Windows Domain:
net ads join -k createcomputer=Servers/UNIX -U unixadmin@YOURDOMAIN.NET
net ads keytab create -U domainadminuser
Testing the domain join #
The next few commands are ways to verify you successfully joined the AD. The output below the commands is an example of what you should see.$ net ads info LDAP server: 10.1.0.1 LDAP server name: kdc1.domain.com Realm: DOMAIN.COM Bind Path: dc=DOMAIN,dc=COM LDAP port: 389 Server time: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:05:17 CDT KDC server: 10.1.0.1 Server time offset: 0
$ net ads testjoin Join is OK