Joining a windows 2000 PDC

[David Highley]

"Rob Garth wrote:"
> 
> I am having a problem beocming a domain member with samba 2.2.2 on solaris
> 8.
> 
> I have 2 samba severs - one on redhat7.1, the other on solaris. The
> smb.conf file, is identical on both, and I followed the domumented
> procedure for becoming a domain member and completed each step on both
> machines the same. I also have an lmhosts file, again identical on each
> server

You can't have two PDCs for the same domain. Samba does not support a
BDC yet, so the second Samba server up should fail.

> 
> Both respond to joining the domain. However, the samba server on redhat
> allows doman level authentication. The solaris server does not. The error
> message is as follows:
> 
> [2001/11/29 13:42:51, 0] rpc_client/cli_netlogon.c:cli_net_auth2(160)
>   cli_net_auth2: Error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
> [2001/11/29 13:42:51, 0] rpc_client/cli_login.c:cli_nt_setup_creds(72)
>   cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed
> [2001/11/29 13:42:51, 0]
> smbd/password.c:connect_to_domain_password_server(1371)
> connect_to_domain_password_server: unable to setup the PDC credentials to
> machine W2K-BLK-LABS.UWS.EDU.AU. Error was : NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED.
> [2001/11/29 13:42:51, 0] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1591)
>   domain_client_validate: Domain password server not available.
> 
> One thing I noticed - The win2k PDC shows the redhat machine as a NT4.0
> server, it doesn't report the Os of the solaris server.
> 
> 
> 
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