Joining SambaDomain with Win2k(german)

[Christoph Schumacher]

Hi Ron

Hi solved the problem.
The failure is, that the adduser programm of BSD is the wrong add user
script. You have to use "/usr/sbin/pw", BUT: that doesnt work too, because
w2k wants to add an account with the name of the win2k machine with a "$" in
the name, e.g. merlin$ if the w2k machines name is merlin.
Add the user "by hand" without "$",vipw the passwd file and add the $ sign,
smbpasswd -a....and it will work.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yacketta,Ronald J" <YackettaRJ at worldkitchen.com>
To: "Schumacher Christoph" <schumi-news at gmx.de>
Cc: <samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 3:44 PM
Subject: RE: Joining SambaDomain with Win2k(german)


> I had the same problem yesterday, I created the root and machine account
> as per the HowTo. When I went to join the domain I received the same exact
> error
> message. I did a bit of digging and finally removed the machine account
from
> smbpasswd
> and tried to join the domain and would you know it worked *shrug* and this
> was
> >from the 2_2 CVS downloaded on Sunday around ~8pm EST
>
>