join samba client to samba domain

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

if you don't have a private/smbpasswd,

touch private/smbpasswd.

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, 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
> 
> from the client machine, this also fails, telling me to use lsaquery first.
> 
> Does anyone know what causes this problem?
> How should I proceed?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Pieter Grimmerink
> 

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