Join NT/win2000 into a Samba Domain

[Matthew Geddes]

gaby at tau.uab.es wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm trying to join some NT (workstation)/ windows 2000 to my Samba-domain
> server, but I cannot. I'm using Red Hat 6.1 with samba 2.0.6
> 
> Some one told me I have to create an "special" trust account into linux (=>
> samba) and then use it to log-in.
> 
> I'm trying several ways, but it seems that the account mus be created with '$'.
> 
> Eg. We want the trust account TRUST to join domain DOMAIN using user USER
> 
>     * In win 95/98 works fine log in into DOMAIN with user USER
> 
>     * In NT doesn't work, so I created an account called TRUST, but to use the
>       smbpass -m it must be "TRUST$"
>       when I configure NT/2000 to use the account TRUST or TRUST$ with domain
>       DOMAIN it doesn't work.
> 
> Can you help me?
> 
> Thank you.

I'm not sure that W2K will work with Samba 2.0.x. Try Samba TNG. More
info at http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng/faq/index.php3

Hope it helps,
Matt

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Matthew Geddes
Network Manager
Xavier College
Gawler, SA