What is wrong here ...

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

you're running SAMBA_TNG.   cool!

On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> >freedom# smbpasswd -j FREEBIE 
> >Unknown parameter encountered: "min passwd length"
> >Ignoring unknown parameter "min passwd length"

don't know.

> >Joining Domain as PDC
> >socket connect to /tmp/.smb.0/agent failed

ignore this.

> >error connecting to 216.183.2.2:445 (Connection refused)

ignore this.

> >cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed.  status: c0000022
> >2000/01/16 06:30:07 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change
> password for domain FREEBIE.
> >Unable to join domain FREEBIE.

did you do smbpasswd -a -m yoursambaserver$ beforehand?  you probably need
to to get the right trust account password [a default well-known value
unfortunately, with smbpasswd].