The Account Used is a Computer Account.

[Pettersson, Magnus]

TRy changing the character maps in samba, and comment out the password sync,
if you are using it.
I had the same problem, trying to join a w2k with a samba_2_2, and after I
hacked around, commenting out bit by bit It worked...

/magnus



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Pilger [mailto:pilger at kahana.higp.hawaii.edu]
> Sent: den 18 januari 2001 03:53
> To: samba-ntdom
> Subject: The Account Used is a Computer Account.
> 
> 
> What the heck does this mean. I posted this once before, but got no
> response. I figured it was just my setup, but now someone else has
> posted the same problem, so I know it's not just me.
> 
> I removed all the old stuff, downloaded the latest SAMBA_2_2 from CVS
> last week, recompiled and reinstalled. Still no luck.
> 
> I have now tried on Solaris 8 and Redhat 6.2. From a hotpatched Win2K
> and a pristine Win2K. I have tried 4 character domains and 5 character
> domains. Always it is the same.
> 
> Go to join domain.
> Enter "root" and appropriate password.
> Wait a bit, get the following response:
> 
> "The Account Used is a Computer Account. Use Your Global User 
> Account or
> Local User Account to Access the Server."
> 
> Try again and get:
> 
> "Procedure Number Out of Range."
> 
> Try again and get:
> 
> "The Account ..."
> 
> and so on, ad infinitum. It also edits the smbpasswd file for me and
> disables the machine entry.
> 
> What the heck is the difference between a computer account, a global
> user account and a local computer account? What is generating this
> message?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Eric J. Pilger
> 
> Systems Administrator
> 
> Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology/SOEST
> 
> pilger at pgd.hawaii.edu
> 
> (808)956-6321
> 
> 
>