win2k won't join domin

[Gerald Carter]

On Wed, 02 May 2001 13:17:15 Ken Palosaari wrote:
> [2001/05/02 14:05:57, 10] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent_internal(84)
>   startsmbfilepwent_internal: opening file /samba/private/smbpasswd
> [2001/05/02 14:05:57, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:startsmbfilepwent_internal(87)
>   startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file
> /samba/private/smbpasswd. Erro
> r was Permission denied
> [2001/05/02 14:05:57, 0] passdb/smbpass.c:iterate_getsmbpwuid(1243)
>   unable to open smb password database.
> [2001/05/02 14:05:57, 5] rpc_parse/parse_prs.c:prs_debug(63)
>  
> 
> not sure why I'm getting this error when I have the user 
> trying to create the account in both the domain admin 
> group  and domain admin users  options in the smb.conf

I'm not sure (would have to look into it some more), but 
you may need to be root.  I'm not sure how well the domain admin
stuff works right now.  There may be some code paths that it
doesn't cover.






Cheers, jerry
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