Samba as a PDC

Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Fri Sep 13 07:28:29 GMT 2002


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> I have configured samba to be the PDC for the M$ computers on the
> network. I have W2K server running but not as a PDC. When I try to
> add the W2K machine to the domain, I get prompted for a username and
> passwd. I've tried every username and passwd on the smaba machine
> but none work. Does anyone have any suggestions?

This kind of questions is better asked on the samba-users mailing
list. What you need to enter there is the username and password of an
account on the pdc that is able to write to the smbpasswd. This is
usually only root who then must have a password in the smbpasswd file.

Volker

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