Infamous 'No mapping between account names and security ID's' message

[Eric Pilger]

Hear, hear! I recently tried for what must have been my 10th time.
Rebuild from CVS, start with a fresh Win2K install, "simple" smb.conf, 5
digit domain name, proper add user script, yada, yada, yada.

Still got the same message about how I'm using a "computer account" and
I should instead be using a "local or global user account". And then it
adds an entry to the smbpasswd file for the machine, and disables it.

What is this bloody "computer account" business? I have root in the
smbpasswd file, and that's what I'm using.

Boyd Kelly wrote:

>  Hello all,+ the other Remote procedure calls, credentials conflit etc
> messages.Yes I am having this same problem - spent most of the day on
> it with no success.  Following instructions to the T. Recompining.
> Have scanned all the posts about it, and don't seem to find any
> logic.Some say it's after removing rpm's that things work.  Others its
> the Wins server pointing to itself.  Odd/Even domain names? Yes root
> was added to smbpasswd.  Followed the Howtos.  Tried deleting
> accounts, recreating manually and let win2k do it.Does someone really
> know what the issue is here?  Let's put this in a FAQ.  Thanks for
> some more input.Boyd Kelly

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Eric J. Pilger
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