Logging into Windows 2000/sp2 with Samba PDC

[Francis Turner]

Geoffrey Dolman wrote:

> Hi Jean,
> 
> I don't think that binding NetBIOS to TCP/IP is the problem I'm having.
> In my humble experience of samba I have found that Windows 2000 clients
> will not browse samba shares or anything without NetBIOS bound to
> TCP/IP. 
> The problem I am having can be summarised as follows:
> 
> Samba shares in a workgroup : OK
> Log onto PC with local account & browse samba share or map drive : OK
> 
> Changed to domain logons etc in smb.conf as shown in my original post
> (sorry I don't have a copy to hand), added a root account and a machine
> account with smbpasswd.
> Logged onto the PC (which does have NetBIOS bound to tcp/ip) opened the
> system applet in the control panel and clicked properties. I changed
> from workgroup to domain supplying the username root and the relevant
> password when prompted.
> After a minute or so I got a message saying welcome to the domain.
> I rebooted the pc.
> 
> When it came back up I got a message along the lines of There is no
> computer account for this machine on the domain or the password is
> wrong. I then changed the computer password to null ie smbpasswd -n
> machine, allowed null passwords in smb.conf, restarted smaba and
> rebooted the pc.
> When the pc came back up I tried to log in again except this time I was
> told that the domain was not available. 
> 
> I've tried using different machine names and domain names and this does
> not make any difference. I've also tried to add the computer to the
> domain without creating an account for it before hand and this does not
> work. I get an access denied message. This may well be the source of the
> problem because the root account needs to be able to alter the account
> to join it to the domain doesn't it? However, comparing the HOW-TOS with
> what I have done and the problems other people report, I can't see why
> this should be the case.
> 
> cheers
> 
> Geoff
> On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 14:16, Jean Guillou wrote:
> 
>>Hello
>>
>>I have the same problem ( samba 2.2.2)
>>
>>GD> I am having problems logging into a Windows 2000 client in a samba domain.
>>  Had exactly the same problem. (using lm8)
>>  on the w2k box binding netbui to tcp/ip  fixed it for me.
>>

The enclosed post on the samba mail list seems to explain the problem 
ans possible solution. Haven't tried it yet but I'm stuck at exactly 
this point myself




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