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FREENAS 9.3 - Can't join AD

Hi everyone. I'm going crazy trying to join my FREENAS server to windows 2008 AD service. I've tried almost everything with no luck. I always get this message:
Unable to find domain controllers for innovateperu.local.
and the log shows:  
FreeNAS_ActiveDirectory_Base.get_SRV_records: no SRV records for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.innovateperu.local found, fail!
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My local domain is: innovateperu.local
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Check your Active Directory DNS zones to make sure the MSDCS folder/Forward Lookup Zone is there and that there is a valid SRV record under _TCP.DC folder.
Have you considered upgrading to the latest stable release (9.10.1 has probably been out for a few months now).

There are quite a few AD joining bugs in 9.3.

https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/7181
https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/10860
https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/6980
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Thx for your replies. I have tried host -a _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.innovateperu.local. I get response...
About migrating version. This server is in production environment and holds my VM so I cannot restart it. Is there any other approach?
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See the attached image for results from host command.
By the way I did try what FreeNAS suggests.
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Yeah, I would definitely try spin up a new VM to test joining a newer version to your AD environment. I can only assume its some sort of bug in FreeNAS 9.3.
thanks anyway. I will try that.
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freenas as a computer object exists from the beginning. That was the first thing I did when trying to join it to my domain
However as mentioned earlier, did you add permissions on the OU where FREENAS computer object exists.
Thank you all for your help. I could finally join my domain. You would laugh if I told u that the computer object "FREENAS" was disabled in my AD! lol. After enabling it again it could join the AD with no prob.