samba-tng 1.8 woes..

[Panagiotis Malakoudis]

Have you tried running the command as samedit -S . -U root
Hope that helps...

----- Original Message -----
From: geoffrey lee <snail_talk at yahoo.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 4:07 PM
Subject: samba-tng 1.8 woes..


> hi all,
>
> i've gotten samba tng 1.8 to compile and it runs fine.
> but i'm having problems with logging on to the domain. i'm new to
samba-tng
> ..(upping from 2.0.6)
>
>
> after installing and running the daemons i (tried to) recreate the nt
> workstation machine account on the samba box. (samedit createuser
machine$).
> it said that it failed because it was unable to connect to /tmp/.smb
...and
> that connection to 255.255.255.255 port 139 and 445 failed. :( i tried
doing
> this both as root (with no admin privileges for samba ntdomain) and as a
> normal user with admin privileges for the samba ntdomain.
>
> well i went on anyway and i rejoined the domain wiht the ntworkstation and
> surprsingly i got a welcome message but after i went through the
obligatory
> reboot and tried to logon it said that it was unable to log me on because
> the machine account passwd is incorrect...
>
> can someone guide me through (even the obvious points ;-) since i'm new)
how
> to join the domain with an nt box?
>
> thanks.
>
> Geoff.