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  • ipa-adtrust-install fails with ipa : CRITICAL CIFS services failed to start

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    Good Afternoon,

    I've been stuck on this issue for most of the day, systemctl status smb.service reports:

    â smb.service - Samba SMB Daemon
    Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/smb.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2016-01-26 16:49:17 CST; 46s ago
    Process: 26597 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/smbd $SMBDOPTIONS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Main PID: 26597 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
    Status: "Starting process..."

    Jan 26 16:49:16 . smbd[26597]: [2016/01/26 16:49:16.955154, 0] ipa_sam.c:4208(bind_callback_cleanup)
    Jan 26 16:49:16 . smbd[26597]: kerberos error: code=-1765328203, message=Keytab contains no suitable keys for cifs/.@
    Jan 26 16:49:17 . smbd[26597]: [2016/01/26 16:49:17.955603, 0] ipa_sam.c:4520(pdb_init_ipasam)
    Jan 26 16:49:17 . smbd[26597]: Failed to get base DN.
    Jan 26 16:49:17 . smbd[26597]: [2016/01/26 16:49:17.955685, 0] ../source3/passdb/pdb_interface.c:179(make_pdb_method_name)
    Jan 26 16:49:17 . smbd[26597]: pdb backend ipasam:ldapi://%2fvar%2frun%2fslapd-MHMRTC-LOCAL.socket did not correctly init (error was NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL)
    Jan 26 16:49:17 . systemd[1]: smb.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
    Jan 26 16:49:17 . systemd[1]: Failed to start Samba SMB Daemon.
    Jan 26 16:49:17 . systemd[1]: Unit smb.service entered failed state.
    Jan 26 16:49:17 . systemd[1]: smb.service failed.

    but I've
    ipa service-add cifs/.@
    and
    ipa-getkeytab -s . -p cifs/. -k /etc/samba/samba.keytab
    /etc/dirsrv/ds.keytab
    /etc/krb5.keytab

    Any help would be most appreciated!
    Thank you,

    Michael Le Fevers

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