[Samba] What is the domain name when using Samba as PDC

[Clement]

Andreas Ntaflos wrote:

>On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 02:17:31AM +1000, Clement wrote:
>  
>
>>"The following error occured attempting to join the domain "SAMBA":
>>"Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password."
>>
>>The user "clement" and the machine user "clement$" were both manually 
>>created.  The log.smbd also showed the password was authenticated.  Do 
>>you have any suggestion about the trouble?
>>    
>>
>
>Am I right to believe that the machine user clement$ is the (NetBIOS) name 
>of the computer you want to join to the domain?
>
>Also, have you done an 
># smbpasswd -a root
>on the PDC machine? Because you cannot use a regular user such as 
>(I believe) clement to add the machine to the domain, it needs to be a
>Samba root user (or a user with Samba-root privileges, although I have
>experienced problems with that, but didn't investigate them). So after 
>doing the 
># smbpasswd -a root
>and giving it a password (preferrably not the same as the Unix root
>user) you should try again to join the computer to the domain, this
>time using "root" as username (and the Samba password you just gave) in
>the dialog box on the client machine.
>
>I found this how-to quite useful, maybe it can help you:
>http://www.linuxhelp.ca/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=3&t=3823
>
>Your smb.conf looks quite reasonable, didn't find anything wrong in
>there.
>
>HTH
>  
>
Hi Andreas,

Thank you very much.  The root user is the key.  I did not understand 
what is 'to add the machine to the domain'.  It appears now that using 
the root user at the first time is what is needed.

Regards,
Clement