W2K joining SMB Server

[Armand Welsh]

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I had problems too, I couldn't get w2k to join a smaba hosted domain, for
several days.  Then one day, I decided to take another stab at it, and gues
what... I did a "locate smb | grep bin" and found that I have duplacates.
Once I removed the old stuff, and retried, I found that the computer account
had a password assigned.  So I "vi /etc/passwd" and removed the computer
account.  and "vi /etc/smbpasswd" and removed the computer account, and the
root account entry.  I then set the smbpasswd for root to the linux
password, and created the computer account as directed in the FAQ, and as I
suspected it didn't work.. But, actually, it would... I tried it a few more
times, and (of course) the last try, it paused longer than normal, and then
said, welcom to domain... it worked.  It was just a matter of retrying a few
times, I guess maybe a timing issue.  I don't remember if I rebooted, or
just logged out, but after every couple of failures, I would log out and log
back in, then try again.

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bannon" <D.Bannon at latrobe.edu.au>
To: "Joe Olt" <joeoltusa at netscape.net>; <samba-ntdom at samba.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2000 3:45 AM
Subject: Re: W2K joining SMB Server


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> At 10:10 AM 15/12/2000 EST, Joe Olt wrote:
> >I have not been using Samba 2.2 that long.  But, I was able to get W2K
> >workstations to joing the Samba domain only after this.
> >
> >After I followed the How-To, it would not work.  I changed the passwd
program
> >to point to the smbpasswd program and username level to 8.  Then it
worked.
>
> Are you using upper case letters in user names ??
>
> And the passwd directed to smbpasswd ? Hey ?? Please try the same thing
> with passwd sync turned off. Always try the simpler system first !
> Is it possible that you have multiple versions of samba installed ? Could
> smbd be calling an earlier smbpasswd ?
>
> Just guessing....
>
> David
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