Then, anyone can tell me about "unable to join domain"??

[Greg Dickie]

Did you create the machine account for the samba machine on the NT PDC and set
the password to be the machine name in lower case?

This is probably why smbpasswd -r <NT PDC> -j <DOMAIN> is failing.


Greg

On 31-May-99 Justo Alonso Achaques wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Tomek Jarosinski wrote:
> 
>> >   I wan't install how PDC, only that the Samba server join to the domain
>> > 
>> Hello,
>   Hello
>> 
>> Read carefully all samba nt faq docs and encryption.txt docs.
>> Important:
>> 1. Samba has to be set with encrypted passwords
>   Ok
> 
>> 2. You have to make accounts for every pc and add with smbpasswd -a -m
>> wsname
> 
>   But with -a -m params, you create the machine account in the Samba PDC
>   server, and I wan't that the Samba are a PDC, only a NT server, which
>   pass the auth to the PDC (a NT box)
> 
>   I make de account for the samba server in the PDC of the domain
> 
>> 3. Does your samba server is also wins server for your domain ? Better
>> do it.
> 
>   I have other wins server. Support in samba server is off.
>   But wins server = 172.17.1.1
> 
>> 4. You need a correct smb.conf
>   
>   Well.... I want this.. !! ;)))
> 
>   When I execute the command: 
># smbpasswd -j MYDOMAIN -r pdcserver
> modify_trust_password: machine PDCSERVER rejected the session setup. Error
> was : code 131.
> 1999/05/31 15:30:26 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change
> password for domain MYDOMAIN.
> Unable to join domain MYDOMAIN.
># 
> 
>> 
>> I am using this:
> 
>   well, this is a smb.conf to a Samba PDC server, isn't it???
>> 
>> [global]
>>         workgroup = PPMW
>>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>>         log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m.%U
>>         max log size = 100
>>         time server = Yes
>>         load printers = No
>>         character set = iso8859-1
>>         logon script = login.bat
>>         logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
>>         logon drive = H:
>>         domain logons = Yes
>>         os level = 65
>>         preferred master = Yes
>>         domain master = Yes
>>         wins support = Yes
>>         invalid users = root
>>         dos filetimes = Yes
>>         dos filetime resolution = Yes
>>         fake directory create times = Yes
>> 
>> [homes]
>>         comment = Homes
>>         read only = No
>>         guest ok = Yes
>>         browseable = No
>> 
>> [netlogon]
>>         comment = Logons Files
>>         path = /usr/local/samba/netlogon
>>         read only = No
>>         guest ok = Yes
>>         locking = No
>> 
>> [profiles]
>>         path = /opt/win/profiles
>>         read only = No
>>         guest ok = Yes
>> 
>> Good luck !
>> -- 
>> Have a nice day !
>> Tomek Jarosinski
>> 

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