Cannot authenticate machine ...

[Eoin Verling]

Hi,

I'm running Samba 2.0.7 on SuSE 6.3, kernel 2.2.16

I'm using samba as a PDC, authenticating NT 4 (srv pk 5) clients. I have no
problem setting up new NT clients and users to authenticate with samba, the
problem is with machines that have already been setup.

Now, the next step here is unclear to me, but basically the client machine
no longer authenticates with the samba PDC. Whether it happened when I
stopped samba, or changed a password.

The username still authenticates fine. Upon NT login, I get the error
message:-

"The system cannot log you on to this domain because the systems computer
account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account is
incorrect."

To get around this problem, I login to the NT client as Administrator, move
the machine out of the "Domain" and into a "Workgroup", reboot the machine
... change it back to the "Domain" again, and I get the "Welcome to <X>
domain".

The I login as the user again, fine, except NT now creates a new profile for
that user, ie <username>.000 in c:\WINNT\Profiles ... and when I try to
start Outlook (2000), I get the error "Cannot start Microsoft Outlook". If I
login as Administrator I _can_ start Outlook.

Now, the get the machine to login to the original profile, I edited the
registry where I found the reference to <username>.000 and changed it to
<username>

So, the crux of my problem is getting Outlook to work again!!

Has anyone seen this problem???

E

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