Not able to join domain!

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

manually add the samba server to the nt domain _first_ (SRVMGR.EXE).  the
command below is to complete the domain-joining on the samba side.

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Mathias Boettger wrote:

> 
> 
> Greg Dickie schrieb:
> 
> > Are you sure there is no other detailed error message? Please include all of
> > the output from smbpasswd.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> > On 01-Jun-99 Mathias Boettger wrote:
> > > I did everything explained in the documentation on the samba homepage
> > > "Joining an NT Domain with Samba 2.0".
> > > All options set in the smb.conf are correct (I think). Still there is
> > > the problem that the string "smbpasswd -j <domain> -r <pdc>" doesn't
> > > work. The error-message is "Unable to join domain". Why that? Also the
> > > Samba-Machine has been added to the PDC.
> > >
> > > Please help me!
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Greg Dickie
> > Just A Guy*
> > *from discreet (the logic is gone)
> > Montreal
> > (514) 954-7171
> > greg at discreet.com
> 
> OK.
> 
> This is the error messege I get when I try to join the domain (or is it the
> PDC?):
> 
> /smbpasswd -j <name of the samba-server> -r <name of the PDC>
> 
> The following appears:
> 
> load_client_codepage: filename /usr/local/samba/lib/codepages/codepage.850 does
> not exist.
> cli_net_auth2: Error NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT
> cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed
> modify_trust_password: unable to setup PDC credentials to machine <name of the
> PDC>. Error was: NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT.
> 1999/06/01 13:13:38 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change password
> fpr domain <name of the samba-server>
> Unable to join domain <name of the samba-server>
> 
> So what's the problem with the domain?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 

<a href="mailto:lkcl at samba.org"   > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton  </a>
<a href="http://www.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network Development </a>
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