Zorin and windows domain server

[Lasse]

Hi,

I'm a teacher / tech support at a small private school in Denmark. We've been wanting to switch over to a windows alternative for quite some time. I found Zorin about a year ago and finally decided to see if I could make it fit our ecosystem. I'm having issues with joining domain during the install. it can't seem to find our domain server. I've set up another windows domain server at home to test it out and it's the same issue. at my homelab got the domain khaos.local and if putting that in it seems it can't resolve the server. Because of the finicky way the guide works it's a bit of a hassle to make the terminal show (Nothing happens when pressing ctrl+alt+t) so it's hard to look what's going on. I got it at some point though at it seems it doesn't use my local dns during the install - What gives?

[Forpli]

I'm not familar with this problem. Maybe this guide can help you?

Join Active Directory / LDAP

[Lasse]

followed that one to a T... didn't help

[swarfendor437]

Hi and welcome.

Take a look here:

Education - One-Shot script to Set up Automatic Student Drive Mapping + More

This is my first post to this forum, and I have had to trawl through the internet and perform a lot of testing to make this just work. The original aim was to simply mount any student's share when they log in; a diabolically difficult effort due to an appalling lack of documentation. Now, you may think, "Oh, that will be simple." Perhaps it is, but I sure couldn't find an adequate answer anywhere for a couple of years. So, after finally making that work, a student can log in via Active Direc…

[Lasse]

I've seen that also - Doesn't quite help in my situation - is it better to have some kind of alternative to active directory running? - I wouln't know what it would be for ubuntu, but I'm sure there is some kind of auth server with the possilibity to give access to printers, network drives and such...

[swarfendor437]

Well you can add the server packages to Zorin. Reminded me of the school where I worked at in Integrated Resource. The school were having major issues with Squirrel Mail and IT asked me to bring in a copy of the then release of Ubuntu to set up a temporary mail server. They were surprised how easy it was to set up.

[d.keenleyside]

To me, this sounds like a DNS lookup issue. When Active Directory is installed, it requires a DNS server to be installed as well.
So, with that in mind, that DNS knows where everything is. And, for your DHCP server, it needs to provide the IP of the Active Directory server as a DNS entry to the client machines.

If the client machines are receiving DHCP from a router, then they will only know the router's addresses if the router is not providing the DNS addresses of the Active Directory server.

Given you are not finding the Active Directory server, I believe this is the problem, that the client machine is not talking to the Active Directory's DNS server.