[Samba] Joining a Domain With NT4 PDC Instructions Don't Work
Herb Lewis
herb at sgi.com
Tue Apr 2 18:04:04 GMT 2002
This is a bug that I have mentioned several times on this list.
smbpasswd on big-endian machines was broken. It is fixed in
the current CVS code.
Harvey Wamboldt wrote:
>
> Keywords: samba, NT4, PDC, smbpasswd, problem, "join domain"
> NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT,
> "unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine"
>
> Version: samba-2.2.3a, built on SPARC/Solaris 5.7 with gcc.
>
> The Samba 2.2 instructions/web page titled:
>
> "security = domain in Samba 2.x"
>
> section
>
> "Joining an NT Domain with Samba 2.2"
>
> does not work with my NT4 PDC.
>
> I just wasted two days tracking down the procedure which does work. A
> little bit of documentation would have saved me a lot of grief.
> Perhaps the above document could be changed? Also the document
> DOMAIN_MEMBER.html should be changed to match.
>
> What finally worked for me was this:
>
> (1) delete the samba server from the NT4 PDC's list of servers,
>
> (2) reboot the NT4 PDC,
>
> (3) add the samba server back to the NT4 PDC using the server manager,
>
> (4) run: smbpasswd -j <DOM> -r <PDC>
>
> Note: in step 4 above *do not* use -U to assign a username or
> password.
>
> This procedure, with emphasis on step (4) should definitely be listed
> as a procedure to try when the problem is failure to authenticate
> using an NT4 PDC.
>
> I eventually figured this out from smbpasswd(8). Perhaps this is a
> bug since one would think that running:
>
> smbpasswd -j <DOM> -r <PDC> -UAdministrator%password
>
> would accomplish the same thing, but in my case at least it doesn't.
>
> Rgds,
>
> -H-
>
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Herb Lewis Silicon Graphics
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Strategic Software Organization Mountain View, CA 94043-1351
herb at sgi.com Tel: 650-933-2177
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