Problems joining a domain with a Samba-TNG PDC

[Lars Kneschke]

Paul Kennedy wrote:
> 
> 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".
Ahh, i had this too! Sorry i did not read correctly!

After joining the domain, lsarpd doesn't work anymore. It doesn't
crash, but it doesn't work anymore. Try to restart the samba
daemons before you login again. After that i was abel to login.

> > 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

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