Required Samba user id's

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hi,

remove the machine entry from smbpasswd and try again, it worked for me.

cu.

romy

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 R.J.Mckeating at lboro.ac.uk wrote:

> This is driving me daft,
>
> I cannot get a w2k machine to connect to a rhu box running the latest samba as a
> pdc. I think I am going to cry or maybe just go down the pub.
>
> OK is it true you have to be root to "join the domain", what do "join the
> domain" actually mean. I have a machine entry in the /etc/passwd file of
>
> pc00-rjm$::31465:31465::/dev/null:/bin/false
> obviously there is a root password in /etc/passwd
>
> There is an entry for the machine in the smbpasswd file of
>
> pc00-rjm$:31465:2287DD5C8BA901D21486235A2333E4D2:EFEF3A0E219AA2CDB599C25FAF6E1C87:[DW
> ]:LCT-3AC1B671:
>
> If I do /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -a root I get
>
> ERROR: Badly formed boolean in configuration file: "ues".
> INFO: Debug class all level = 3   (pid 3270 from pid 3270)
> New SMB password:
>
> I put in the password for root and then in /private/smbpasswd I have the entry
>
>
> root:0:FA1961430A96F9BEAAD3B435B51404EE:53F0FAE7D53BBE6C90F843ECEB71DCA0:[U
> ]:LCT-3AC1B5D1:
>
>
> Now on my w2k machine I tell it to join the domain, I put in the user as root
> and the password for root and I get the error
>
> The account used is a computer account.  Use your global or local user account
> to access this server.
>
>
> So does anybody know what I am doing wrong, can anybody clearly enumerate the
> steps for getting w2k machine to connect to a samba running as a pdc, what
> accounts have to be created with what command in what file. And also what
> accounts have to exist on the w2k machine.
>
>
> Realy could use some help here as I feel I am going round in cirles, maybe I am
> just dim.
>
> Cheers all
>
> Ron
>
> Ron McKeating
> Computing Services
> Loughborough University
> 01509 222329
>

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