Samba took over my NT domain - now I can't get it back.

[greg.helwig at acterna.com]

This will not work in my case. I am using Samba with the "security = DOMAIN"
option. Therefore I cannot change the domain/workgroup to a different name. If I
do this, I will not be able to authenticate to my password server.

So far the only option that I have gathered is to uninstall Samba and start over
from scratch. Is this really the only way to get rid of this problem?

Thanks,
Greg Helwig




Greg,

assuming your NT box is attempting to be br the PDC of the domain ADA,
it's probably an idea to try changing the domain name that the samba box
is attaching to. I had similar problems and found by moving the samba box
to a different domain, the NT side of things ran smoothly. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Philip

> I am currently running samba 2.07 on Solaris X86 (5.7). Originally when I
> started Samba in my NT environment, I set "prefered master = yes" and set the
> browse election to 65. Eventually I ran into problems whereas my NT
workstations
> would/could not authenticate to my PDC. Since then, smb.conf has been changed
to
> read "prefered master = no" and ""os level = 0", but I am still having
problems
> with many more of my machines accross our NT domain.
>
> Some of the oddities are...
> ...WINS database needs to be purged and rebuilt periodically.
>
> ...Our NetApp box loses its status as a NT server on the domain, rendering it
> unusable - this needed to be readded in server manager several times and
> eventually bounced.
>
> ...Two of our BDCs were randomly promoted to PDC. At one time we had 2 PDCs on
> the domain at once. Our PDC lost its status and was demoted. The funny thing
> about this is that at no time, other than the original master browser problem,
> did any of our NT servers point a finger at our Samba server as the source of
> the problem.
>
> ...Many of our workstations, accross the country, cannot authenticate against
> the domain (PDC).
>
> I have included the pertinent information from my smb.conf file. If anyone has
> any ideas as to what I need to do to regain controll of my NT domain, please
> reply to this message. I have tried all that I know how. Right now I have
Samba
> turned off to determine if the problems still exist.
>
> Thanks in advance.....
>
> Greg
>
> [global]
>            client code page = 437
>            workgroup = ADA
>            netbios name = LORE
>            server string = Samba Server
>            security = DOMAIN
>            encrypt passwords = Yes
>            allow trusted domains = No
>            password server = nt_com
>            log file = /opt/samba/var/log.%U
>            max log size = 50
>            name resolve order = host wins lmhosts bcast
>            deadtime = 5
>            socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY
>            load printers = No
>            logon path =
>            logon home =
>            os level = 0
>            lm announce = False
>            lm interval = 0
>            local master = No
>            browse list = No
>            dns proxy = No
>            wins server = 149.154.36.49
>            invalid users = root bin daemon adm sync shutdown halt mail
newsuucp
> operator gopher
>            hosts allow = 149.154.