help please! cant login from NT onto samba domain

[Amol Karnik]

hi all,

sorry for being such a pain... but i've almost got things working
now...except for damn NT.
i'm using the cvs code from last week and logins from 95 and 98 work
perfect.

i just got new NT machines in, and they refused to join the samba domain
with the security=server option. i had to change that to security=user.

i add an entry for my NT box in /etc/passwd on the samba server.
did a smbpasswd -a -m machinename$ machine 
and it generated an entry in the smbpasswd file.

now when i try to login to the domain from the NT machine as myself or
any other user, it says "the system cannot log you on to the domain
because the systems computer account in the primary domain is missing 
or the password of this account is incorrect"

now, i can log in with my username from an 95 or 98 box.

the samba server runs on a solaris2.5.1 machine. samba is setup to be
the WINS server as well. I do not have any NT server in the network at
all. i have "encrypt passwords = yes".

i noticed from the NTDOM faq that the subnet mask might be different,
which lead to this error.
but both machines 255.255.255.0 as the subnet mask.

the log.nmb file does however says something which strikes me as
incorrect, when i start nmbd
"Attempting to become domain master browser on workgroup SAMBA on subnet
192.168.1.4"
192.168.1.4 is the IP of the samba server.

why does it think the subnet is 192.168.1.4 and not 192.168.1 ?? i dont
have any subnets in the network at all.


now, i can login locally as admin and browse over to the samba server
via network neighbourhood and see the shares. i can also map a network
drive from the samba server. It then asks me for a username and passwd.
So that authentication is working. its just the initial login.

any ideas anyone please?


the following is an excerpt from the log.machinename file
[1998/10/13 18:20:33, 1] smbd/ipc.c:(3250)
  api_fd_reply: INVALID PIPE HANDLE: 700f
[1998/10/13 18:20:33, 1] smbd/ipc.c:(3250)
  api_fd_reply: INVALID PIPE HANDLE: 7004
[1998/10/13 18:20:42, 1] smbd/ipc.c:(3250)
  api_fd_reply: INVALID PIPE HANDLE: 700f
[1998/10/13 18:20:42, 1] smbd/ipc.c:(3250)
  api_fd_reply: INVALID PIPE HANDLE: 700d
[1998/10/13 18:25:02, 1] smbd/ipc.c:(3250)
  api_fd_reply: INVALID PIPE HANDLE: 7001
[1998/10/13 18:25:03, 1] smbd/ipc.c:(3250)
  api_fd_reply: INVALID PIPE HANDLE: 7001


thanks in advance for your time. when i get it all working, i'll send in
a detailed summary on how to get this working, for all others who've had
problems.

- amol