Samba won't talk with PDC - strange, strange!

Matthias Wächter matthias at waechter.wol.at
Tue Aug 10 14:38:02 GMT 1999


On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Dave J. Andruczyk wrote:

> > [1999/08/09 15:26:59, 1] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1243)
> >   domain_client_validate: Can't resolve address for UWTSRV1NT
> 
> Edit your /etc/hosts. put in a line with the IP of the PDC, and its name.
> This way if WINS/BORADCAST fails samba will default to using /etc/hosts
> and DNS.

I think, prior to editing /etc/hosts one should solve the problem that
WINS fails. The solution you present is only good after trying everything
else to make WINS work.

Sehr Wus,
- Matthias

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