PDC switch

[Gerald Carter]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Dan Hough wrote:

> We have been using an machine running RedHat Linux 7.0 and Samba 2.2.0
> as our PDC  for a network of Windows 9x and NT machines.  The hard drive
> on the machine has gone flaky, so we have moved the the smb.conf,
> smbpasswd and MACHINE.SID files to a machine running Solaris 8 and Samba
> 2.2.2.  We created the user and machine accounts in the /etc/passwd file
> on the Solaris machine.
>
> The Windows 9x machines are able to login fine to the domain controller.
>  However, the NT machines cannot find the PDC.  I have tried removing an
> NT machine from the domain, delete and then re-enter the machine in the
> smbpasswd file, and then trying to rejoin the domain, but have had no luck.
>
> Anyone else have any experience replacing PDC's using Samba?

Make sure that your wins server doesn't have an entry for the old PDC'
IP address.








chau, jerry
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