Thoughts on problems with W2K joining ...

[Stokes]

This is a very interesting discovery, this odd number of characters in
domain name thing... I changed the name of my domain and finally was able to
join a w2k machine.    however, after joining and logging into the domain I
am no longer administrator on the w2k machine unless I log into the machine.
So I tried to add my domain account as an adminstrator account on my
machine, but recieved the error "A trust relationship could not be
established with the domain" or something along those lines.

Does the development team know what it is going to take to get samba to a
point where the domain accounts can actually be used from windows machines,
as in recieving the account list and giving those accounts special
permissions on w2k or nt machines, or even user-level shares and access to
win98 machines?  I am a decent c programmer, and perhaps if I knew where to
begin working on adding these capabilities I could contribute or at least
take a crack at it...

....
Stokes

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Sharpe" <sharpe at ns.aus.com>
To: <gandalf at mail.rss.cz>
Cc: "David Bannon" <D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au>; <samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:34 AM
Subject: Re: Thoughts on problems with W2K joining ...


> At 12:41 PM 12/7/00 +0100, gandalf at mail.rss.cz wrote:
> >
> >Sorry to be unclear, it is workgroup parameter in the smb.conf
> >For now, I tried four names (with the otherwise identical
> >configuration) ->
> >
> >TGROUP does not work
> >TGRP does not work
> >GRP works
> >GRPKP works
>
> Damn, it looks like an alignment issue as Andrew said. An odd length
> workgroup name seems to work, while an even length one does not! Win2K is
> more fussy about alignment. I did not try changing the workgroup when I
> tested. That gives me a clue to what the problem is.
>
> Thank you very much!!!!
>
> >s.p.
> >
> >On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >
> >> 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?????
> >
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