Problems joining a domain with a Samba-TNG PDC

[Elrond]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 04:26:52PM +1100, 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.

Okay, the other thing, that worked this morning (but with
an older TNG...):
- rpcclient -S . -U root%
    createuser ntws$
    samuserset ntws$ -p ntws
- go to network-control-panel
- Choose domain, enter domain-name.
- _don't_ use the "create trust-account" check-box.

Yes... This is insecure. (But how secure is the other
method... and how secure is whole thing anyway?)


    Elrond


> 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