Thoughts on problems with W2K joining ...

[Richard Sharpe]

At 12:01 PM 12/7/00 +0100, gandalf at mail.rss.cz wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I would not believe this, but I have seen it with my own eyes:  Got
>fresh cvs today, compiled, removed old /usr/local/samba, installed the
>fresh one, used the same smb.conf as million times before, started the
>w2k, tried to join domain, and - The domain cannot be accesed, blablabla,
>as usual (see my post few days ago with the subject 'another error...')
>Then I CHANGED THE GROUP NAME in the smb.conf file, restarted samba,

What do you mean, you changed the group name?????

>rebooted w2k, tried to join the domain, and I AM IN!!! Sorry for the
>caps, but am really going crazy with this ms shit. Thank you all.
>
>s.p.
>
>On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, David Bannon wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> With so many people having problems joining a W2K to samba 2.2 domain
>> recently, I feel a bit mean that that mine works. So I thought I'd try and
>> get it to stop working. Here is how I managed to get some of the error
>> messages that other people are experiencing...
>>
>> (These various [messages] are so wordy I have listed them below.)
>>
>-- 
>*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
>Stanislav Polasek, Research Support Scheme
>Bartolomejska 11, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic
>tel ++420-2-24231871, fax ++420-2-24231997
>-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-
>
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba