Basic question about Samba PDC
Greg Dickie
greg at discreet.com
Fri Mar 5 16:05:40 GMT 1999
The SID file will be <machine name>.SID if it is not a PDC, otherwise it will
be called <domain name>.SID.
I'm confused about what exactly you want, do you have an NT PDC running already?
Greg
On 05-Mar-99 Freddie Ng wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am sorry if this is a FAQ, but I definitely need to work this out as
> soon as possible.
>
> Here's the situation. I want my NT box to join a Samba domain. I have
> followed the steps in the document "FAQ for Samba NTDOM PDC Support"
> found in the Samba website. According to this document, a file name
> private/SAMBA.SID will be created after starting smbd. However, no such
> file was created. What did I do wrong?
>
> Also, when I tried switching from Workgroup to Domain on my NT box, the
> computer gives me the error message "You already have a connection to
> the domain. You must disconnect before joining the domain."
>
> I have read about how to configure the file smb.conf to make Samba a
> PDC. I think the problem isn't coming from misconfiguring this file.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance. Any help or suggestion would be appreciated!
>
>
>
> Fred Ng,
> Systems Administrator
> Toronto District School Board
>
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