samba server BDC or workstation ?

David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr at inethouston.net
Thu Feb 8 13:22:58 GMT 2001


I think you have to set security = User to let the workstations join the
domain.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Foerster" <mafoe at sgi.com>
To: <samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 3:55 AM
Subject: samba server BDC or workstation ?


> Hi,
>
> I added a samba server to our NT Domain with "security = Domain". Although
I
> added it as "workstation", it appears as BDC in Servermanager. That's
> actually alright with me, but how 'should' it appear?
> It works fine for over a week, until now.
>
> The Problem now is, that without any changes some user (including me) get
> "No Domain Controller found..." when logging in with the NT client.
> I took a look in the samba logs, and found a log, for everybody who wasn't
> able to log in successfully.
> The log says the following....
>
>  [2001/02/08 09:57:39, 0] rpc_server/srv_netlog.c:(301)
>   get_md4pw: Workstation DE-MAFOE$: no account in domain
>
> So my workstation chose the Samba server to authenticate. Does that work
in
> general?
> It seems, that whether WINS on samba is not working properly, or it's
> because of the $ at the end of the machine name. There shouldn't be a $.
> I had the same problem when I first started the server, but it was gone,
> when I set the "os level" from 32 to 0.
>
> I would appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks.
> Martin
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