joining NT Domain

[Wolfgang Ratzka]

Karl-Heinz Schulz wrote:
> 
> Is there a how-to which shows me to do the following?
> 
> Join a NT Domain
> Get following error
> 

You have to add the machine to the domain using
"Server Manager" first. This will create a machine account
in the domain. "smbpasswd -j ...." will subsequently change 
the password of this machine account.

> [root at barasnt3 charlie]# smbpasswd -j xxx -r netbiosname-PDC
> WARNING: The "alternate permissions"option is deprecated
> cli_net_auth2: Error NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT
> cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed
> modify_trust_password: unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine PDC.
> Error was : NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT.
> 1999/11/10 14:36:20 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change
> password for domain xxx.
> Unable to join domain xxx.
> 
> Thank you


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