Not able to add to domain

[Patrick Li]

Patrick Li
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On Sat, 13 May 2000, Jens Skripczynski wrote:

> Patrick Li:
> > Hello there,
> > 
> > It was working fine with me before, but not now
> > I am still using TNG-2.4
> > My problem is when I tried to join the domain on my W2k
> > first it ask me the windows username, so I put it in
> > then it ask me the computer and domain, then I put that in
> > lastly it ask me the username again, I put that in too
> > but, what I got is unable to add to domain because you are using a machine account
> > please use a general user a/c to do that
> > 
> > Anyone got a clue on why is that?
> *HMM* I got a bit mixed up.
> 
> Whom do you want to join to who's domain ? What is your setup.
> 
> I gues that you want an NT2000 WS to join an SAMBA controlled Domain.
> Is that right ?

Yup
> 
> Is your error reproduceable. What do the log files tell ?
> The information above leaves those out.
The error is something like "Unable to join domain
you are using a machines a/c now, please use a general user or admin a/c
in order to join the domain

> 
> Please see:
> 
> SAMBA Bug report "How to" 
>     http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng/faq/bugreport.php3
> SAMBA Bug report template 
>     http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng/faq/samba-bugreport-template.txt
> 
> Also check out whether this issue was solved in newer samba-alpha tar's or
> the current cvs. (current tar ball version is 2.5.3).
> 
> 
> Ciao
> 
> Jens Skripczynski
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> 
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