Thoughts on problems with W2K joining ...

[Richard Sharpe]

At 06:34 PM 12/6/00 +1000, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>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.

OK, it works, changing the domain/workgroup to an odd-length name allowed
me to join the domain, while changing the workgroup name and the server
name had no effect.

Now to figure out how to fix this.

>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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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