Join Nt domain

[Mike Brodbelt]

marketing wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> 1) I'm using RH 6.2 and samba-2.0.6 and am trying to become a member of an
> NT
> domain (PDC is an NT 4.0 server called Prioris and the domain is called
> domain1). The net manager created for me an account using Server Manager for
> Domains. I joined the domain ok. After a while I had to reinstall RH 6.2 +
> samba and I tried to join the domain again (smbpasswd -r domain1 -j Prioris)
> but I got the messaje listed below. Does mean I don't have to join the
> domain every time I reinstall samba ???

When your net manager created an account initially, the password for
this machine account was known to Samba. When you joined the domain,
this machine password was changed, and the new password and machine SID
etc were stored on your system by Samba. The domain controller
negotiates regular changes to the machine password with Samba on your
machine.

Now you've reinstalled RedHat, and tried to join the domain again. It
failed, as this time, the machine account password was not known to
Samba, as it's not a newly created account. The domain controller won't
authenticate you, so everything else you do will now fail.

To fix this, get the network manager to go into Server Manager on the
Domain Controller, and delete your machine account, then recreate it.
This will reset the machine password back to a known state. Then, join
the domain again from your machine. All the other problems are related
to you're being non-authenticated, so it should fix them as well.

HTH,

Mike.