Hi,

I am following the FreeRadius Beginners Guide book on how to

join a domain. I keep on getting this error when running the command.

root@FreeRadius:/etc# net ads join -U Administrator

Enter Administrator's password:

Using short domain name -- SQA

Joined 'FREERADIUS' to realm 'SQA.net'

[2012/01/31 10:21:29, 0] libads/kerberos.c:333(ads_kinit_password)

kerberos_kinit_password FREERADIUS$@SQA.NET failed: Clock skew too great

No DNS domain configured for freeradius. Unable to perform DNS Update.

DNS update failed!

This is Samba being annoying. The "net ads" stuff "cares" about your hostname, i.e. $ hostname freeradius ...won't work. You can fool it by temporarily changing your domain to: $ hostname freeradius.soa.net Hi, I am assuming I should edit the $ hostname freeradius.sqa.net in the /etc/hostname file? The only config file I don't have is the krbd5 config file but it ays it is not necessary in the www.deployingradius.com website. You may also have to edit the /etc/krb5.conf file, to add an entry that points to the Active Directory Server. This is often not necessary, as Samba can just "figure it out" when Active Directory is also the main DNS server. I am unable to installthe krdb5-kdc file using the synaptic package manager. Still getting this error: root@FreeRadius:/home/sqauser# net join -U Administrator Enter Administrator's password: Failed to join domain: failed to find DC for domain SQA.NET ADS join did not work, falling back to RPC... Unable to find a suitable server for domain SQA Unable to find a suitable server for domain SQA root@FreeRadius:/home/sqauser# Thanks for everyones feedback. I will continue to debug my issue. Scott