win2k joining samba 2.2 controlled domain

[Armand Welsh]

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for some reason 2.2 doesn't always authenticate... if you try 3 or so times,
it probably would have worked.  The HEAD cvs doesn't seem to have this
problem, maybe you might want to switch to the HEAD version, if the problem
comes back.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick" <slu at firerun.net>
To: <samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 4:47 PM
Subject: win2k joining samba 2.2 controlled domain


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>     I would like to share my success of joining a win2k sp1 machine to a
> samba 2.2 controlled domain
>
> I grabbed today's CVS of samba 2.2 and have successfully joined a win2k
> machine with sp1 to the domain.  I tried a Even number of characters for
> the domain name "TEST".  I followed the PDC how-to to the tee. and when
> I joined the machine to the domain I got the message "Welcome to the
> TEST domain" and I then rebooted the machine.  When I tried to login
> using the test account I created on the domain I received the following
> message:
>
> "The system cannot log you onto this domain because the system's
> computer account in its primary domain is missing
> or the password on that account is incorrect."
>
> I then checked to see if the add user script had created the machine
> account like it should have, and sure enough it was there.  So  I then
> deiced to try an odd number of characters for the domain and I still
> received the same message.  So I then decided to delete any reference to
> the machine account in the password files, and then create the account
> manually. I then also changed the domain name back to "TEST" and joined
> the machine again.  This time upon reboot I was able to logon to the
> TEST domain without a problem, it all works beautifully.
>
> I would like to thank all of the people who have helped create samba,
> because it is a great piece of work!
>
> Patrick
>
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