Workstation Trust Account in Samba

[Jason C. North]

Hello,
	I pulled the source off of CVS last thursday (pre 3.0?), and have
successfully configured my server as a PDC in an NT domain, temporarily
called BBSAMBA.  Windows 98 clients can access the domain at a normal login,
but my NT workstation cannot. I have added it successfully to the domain,
rebooted, and I am unable to logon to the domain. The error I receive at
logon is 'Cannot log you in because the domain BBSAMBA is not available'.
As I recall (I was an MCSE in a past life), and as M$ has verified, this
indicates a problem with the machine account.  As far as I can tell, the
machine account is ok, but perhaps I have overlooked a detail somewhere?

The line for the workstation (sherlock) from my smbpasswd file is as
follows:
sherlock$:1000:AC94C7C703C85CF4C482C03F54CDB5D9:68EA820C11610A8CB70D1425900B
362B:[W          ]:LCT-38FB0BF7:

and in /etc/passwd :
sherlock$:*:1000:900:SHERLOCK.  JCN's WINNT :/dev/null:/dev/null

After a couple of attempts, I have manually set the passwd to 'sherlock'
(according to the O'Reilly book that is what the passwd is set to initially.

Any ideas?

JCN

Jason C. North
BizBlast.com Network and Security Engineer
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