joining a domain works, but login fails

Lars Kneschke lars at kneschke.de
Wed Feb 23 20:55:00 GMT 2000


Elrond wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 11:06:03PM +1100, Lars Kneschke wrote:
> > Hello Luke!
> >
> > I can join the domain, using the join dialog from
> > networksettings(under windows nt). I have not created a
> > workstation trustaccount with rpcclient before. I created a
> > password entry for root in smbpasswd and created a unix user for
> > the workstation. After that i was able to join the domain. But
> > after reboot i was not able to login. The error message was:
> > computer account does not exist or the password is
> > wrong.(translated from german)
> 
> Precisely what I got, when I tried to join a laptop, that
> was connected via RAS to my Linux box.
> 
> The only differences are:
> - I did a createuser ntws$ in rpcclient
> - I used nt4sp4
> 
> When I tried to let nt create the machine account, I got a
> drwatson...
I got him too. But if you delete the ntws$ line from smbpasswd it should
succed.

Cu

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