Can't remove samba server from NT/PDC domain

Greg Dickie greg at discreet.com
Mon Jun 14 11:37:17 GMT 1999



Your machine cannot have a dual personality as far as NT server goes. In other
words The name must be different based on which OS you are booted in. You might
even want to use different IPs although I'm not sure about that. 

On 14-Jun-99 David Cooper wrote:
> 
> Hello, I hope that this is the right list for my problem. Apologies if you
> have
> received this before - the copy sent back to me had no body.
> 
> the background:
> 
> I have a dual boot Linux(2.0.35)/NT4 machine. I regularly switch
> between the 2 OS's. When running NT it sits on an NT/PDC domain.
> When in unix mode I needed to share some files with other NT
> clients so I installed Samba 2.0.3 and followed the instructions
> in "Joining an NT domain with Samba2.0". It worked fine, I could access
> my unix files from the NT clients, and NT shares from my unix box using 
> <smbclient>.
> 
> the problem:
> 
> When I reboot (my machine) back to NT I can't login to the NT domain
> because it still thinks my machine is a Samba server.
> ( I get various messages about my passwd account being missing etc).
> I go back to being a Samba server and then try to remove my machine from the
> NT
> domain using the manager program in the NT/PDC. Although it says that it has
> removed my machine it never removes it from the list, even if I remove the
> shares that I had set up on the <smb.conf> file. Despite its pop-up notice
> that
> an update in 15 mins will remove it from the list this never happens.
> Rebooting
> the PDC (last resort) fails to remove my machine from the domain. (I have
> attached my config file). There do not seem to be any problems removing
> normal NT clients from the domain. Those that don't share anything disappear
> from the list immediately.
>    
> In short:
> 
> What do I need to do to remove my machine (running as a Samba server) from an
> NT/PDC domain so that I can add it later as a normal NT client? Any help on
> this
> will be _greatly_ appreciated.
> 
> thanks i.a.
> 
> Dave Cooper
> 
> ----------------------------
> smb.conf:
> 
> 
> [global]
>         security = domain
>         workgroup = PROJ1
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>         password server = biomass
> 
>#[download]
>#       path = /home/gwa16/downloads
>#       writeable = yes
>#       valid users = dc
> 
> -------------------------------------

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Montreal 
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