join samba client to samba domain

[Michael Glauche]

Pieter Grimmerink wrote:
> 
> I've recently updated my samba PDC to 2.2, and now I tried to recreate a
> machine account for a samba client. I started with a new smbpasswd file,
> followed all the instructions, etc.
> 
> When I try to create a machine account on the Samba server with
> 
> samedit -U root
> createuser client$
> 
> it tells me to use lsaquery first, to get my SID
> This seems to be a function in rpcclient.
> This one fails.
> 
> When I try to join the domain with
> 
> rpcclient -U root
> createuser client$ -j

Join what domain ?? I don't think you need this step ? (not sure)

> 
> from the client machine, this also fails, telling me to use lsaquery first.
> 
> Does anyone know what causes this problem?
> How should I proceed?
> 

Try to use "samedit -S . -U root" (some ppl reported problems otherwise
? )

regards,
   Michael

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