Problems joining a domain with a Samba-TNG PDC

[Paul Kennedy]

I tried this suggestion, but the problem persists. From the message tot he list
over the last few days, quite a few people (everyone ?) building from the tip
of the SAMBA_TNG branch are experiencing this inability to login to a domain
from an NT workstation.

Pk.

Elrond wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 09:42:31AM +1100, Paul Kennedy wrote:
> [...]
> > After rebooting paulpc, I try to logon to the domain Airius and fail. The
> > message dialog which pops up says "The system cannot log you on to this
> > domain because the systems computer account in it's primary domain is
> > missing or the password on that account is incorrect".
> >
> [...]
>
> I got this too for a while (without ldap).
> The current best workarround, I know, is:
> - remove all reference to paulpc$ from ldap
> - give root a password in samba maybe like:
>   samedit -S . -U root%
>   createuser root -p pass
> - (possible checking of that with smbclient...)
> - use the create machine trust account checkbox in the join
>   dialog.
>
> Hope, that helps a bit.
>
>     Elrond