smbpasswd -j DOMAIN fails strangely!

[Quicker than the human eye]

Incidentally.  I the problems I describe occured with a fresh cvs download
that I did last night (Jan 24th).

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On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Quicker than the human eye wrote:

> 
> My setup is rather simple.  Two NT workstations WISDOM and JUSTICE
> (10.10.0.3 and 10.10.0.3) and a Samba server TRUTH running Linux RH6.0
> (with appropriate updates!) at 10.10.0.1
> 
> When attempting to get TRUTH to act like a PDC. I have the requisite
> smb.conf options:
> 
> [global]
> workgroup = VIRTUE 
> netbios name = TRUTH 
> interfaces = 10.10.0.1/16
> local master = yes
> domain master = yes 
> preferred master = yes
> domain logons = yes
> wins support = yes
> encrypt passwords = yes 
> smb passwd file = /opt/samba-tng/private/smbpasswd 
> security = user 
> 
> I can add an account for TRUTH fine.
> 
>      /opt/samba-tng/bin/smbpasswd -a -m TRUTH
> 
> returns:
> 
>      Added user TRUTH$.
>      Password changed for user TRUTH$
> 
> However :
> 
>      /opt/samba-tng/bin/smbpasswd -j VIRTUE
> 
> returns:
> 
> Joining Domain as PDC
> trust_account_file_name: /opt/samba-tng/private/VIRTUE.TRUTH.mac
> trust_account_file_name: /opt/samba-tng/private/VIRTUE.TRUTH.mac
> do_reseed: got 40 bytes from /dev/urandom.
> cli_connection_init_auth: \\TRUTH \PIPE\NETLOGON
> copy_nt_creds: null creds
> cli_net_use_add
> copy_nt_creds: user domain nopw Yes flgs: 0
> cli_find: \\TRUTH
> copy_nt_creds: null creds
> cli_init_creds: ntlmssp_flgs: 0
> copy_nt_creds: user domain nopw Yes flgs: 0
> cli_init_creds: ntlmssp_flgs: 0
> resolve_srv_name: \\TRUTH resolve_name:
> Attempting lmhosts lookup for name TRUTH startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts
> file /opt/samba-tng/lib/lmhosts. Error was No s uch file or directory
> resolve_name: Attempting host lookup for name TRUTH
> cli_establish_connection: TRUTH<00> connecting to TRUTH<20> (10.10.0.1) -
> [] wi th NTLMv1, nopw: Yes
> socket open succeeded.  file name: /tmp/.smb.0/agent
> socket connect to /tmp/.smb.0/agent failed: Connection refused
> redirect FAILED, make direct connection
> Connecting to 10.10.0.1 at port 445
> error connecting to 10.10.0.1:445 (Connection refused)
> Connecting to 10.10.0.1 at port 139
> [000] 81 00 00 48 20 46 45 46 43 46 46 46 45 45 49 43 ...H FEF CFFFEEIC
> [010] 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 ACACACAC ACACACAC
> [020] 41 43 41 43 41 00 20 46 45 46 43 46 46 46 45 45 ACACA. F EFCFFFEE
> [030] 49 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 41 43 ICACACAC ACACACAC
> [040] 41 43 41 43 41 41 41 00 00 00 00 00             ACACAAA. ....
> write_socket(4,76) write_socket(4,76) wrote 76
> .
> .
> .
> cli_nt_session_open: cli_nt_create failed on pipe \NETLOGON to machine
> TRUTH.  Error was ERRSRV - ERRaccess (The requester does not have the
> necessary access  rights  within  the specified  context for the reque
> .
> .
> .
> cli_shutdown
> cli_nt_setup_creds: request challenge failed 
> 2000/01/25 16:59:11 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change
> password for domain VIRTUE.   
> Unable to join domain VIRTUE.  
> 
> 
> Any ideas as to the problem here?  After I execute this I get a
> VIRTUE.TRUTH.mac file in /ops/samba-tng/private/ it contains:
> 6EEDFD6884E8A287030FA5E86F800303:TLC-388E2056
> 
> 
> 
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