Unable to connect to the domain controller

[Andreas Schmidt]

Niall Gormley wrote:

> When I attempt to change the NT workgroup as per the instructions in the
> NTDOM FAQ I get the error message : "Unabe to connect to the
> domain controller for this domain. Have your administrator check you
> computer account on the domain. "
>
> I have added the machine accounts to the /etc/passwd and the
> /etc/smbpasswd and tested user authentication. I've also reset the
> password for the machine account a number of times.
>
> The smb.conf file security setting is domain.
>

The security should be set to 'user' to run your Samba-server as an PDC.
I did so, as I tried to configure my smb.conf but got exactly the same Error

message when I tried to connect to my Domain: "Unable to connect to the
domain controller for this domain. Have your administrator check you
computer account on the domain." WinNT can find the PDC but is not able
to connect. Here are the relevant lines from my Workstation-log-file:

...
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/process.c:switch_message(402)
  switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 1346)
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(675)
  Domain=[ANDINET.DE]  NativeOS=[Windows NT 1381] NativeLanMan=[]
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(679)
  sesssetupX:name=[MOON$]
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(127)
  32 bit error packet at line 447 cmd=115 (SMBsesssetupX) eclass=c000006d
[Error: Unknown error (109,49152)]
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/process.c:timeout_processing(755)
  end of file from client
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(406)
  Closing connections
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/server.c:exit_server(431)
  Server exit (normal exit)

I think, that's the same error-message than yours.

And these are the lines from my Server-log-file:

[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 2] smbd/server.c:main(702)
  Changed root to /
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/oplock.c:open_oplock_ipc(73)
  open_oplock_ipc: opening loopback UDP socket.
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(683)
  bind succeeded on port 0
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/oplock.c:open_oplock_ipc(101)
  open_oplock ipc: pid = 1344, global_oplock_port = 1071
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/process.c:smbd_process(924)
  priming nmbd
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] lib/util_sock.c:send_one_packet(608)
  sending a packet of len 1 to (127.0.0.1) on port 137 of type DGRAM
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 2] lib/access.c:check_access(249)
  Allowed connection from moon.AndiNet.de (192.168.1.106)
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 3] smbd/process.c:process_smb(565)
  Transaction 0 of length 72
[1999/05/18 14:12:46, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(95)
  netbios connect: name1=SAMBA            name2=MOON

Everything seems to be fine in here.
I also checked the accounts and passwords on my Linux machine.
Did there already anybody have a solution of this problem?


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Have a nice day

   Andi