Joining a domain

[Gerald Carter]

Thomas Aeby wrote:
> 
> The netdom ... member /joindomain allegedly works as 
> one would expect (no error messages, everything looks ok). 
> But after joining the domain
> 
>   - I cannot login as a domain user
>   - netdom member /query says:
>       ...
>       Found PDC \\SUSIX
>       Verifying secure channel on \\TESTNT
>       The system cannot find the path specified
> 
>   - the workstation account's password is never changed
> 
> This is with Samba 2.0.7. I tried 2.2.0alpha1 too but did 
> not dive into extensive testing.
> 
> Maybe I am using netdom the wrong way? Since
> 
>         netdom /domain:whatever member /joindomain
> 
> keeps telling me that I have no access to the \\PDC 
> I tried passing a user/password. This makes netdom 
> work without an error message but without really 
> joining the domain. Is this what I am doing wrong?

Hmmm...I thought the syntax was something like 

   netdom /domain:<domain> member %COMPUTERNAME% /joindomain

Of course, this assumes the initial machine trust account
was created on Samba PDC already.

> I owe you a bottle of wine if you can give me a useful hint!

Change that to something non-alcoholic and your on :-)







Cheers, jerry
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