NT into Samba domain?

[Bob Purdon - Lists]

Following up my own post:

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> Since then I've brought my NT box home from work, but I'll be stuffed
> if I can make it work.  I've changed the domain name to match what I
> use here, but if I click OK in the "Identification Changes" box I get
> the error "The domain controller for this domain cannot be located"
> (when I did this on the first NT box, it worked fine).
>
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> The relevant parts of my smb.conf are below:
>
> [global]
>    security = user
>    status = yes
>    workgroup = PURDON
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    domain logons = yes
>    logon script = scripts\login.bat
>    domain admin group = @adm
>    add user script = /bin/false
>    guest account = fuckifiknow

Bingo.

Despite the error messages from NT, it seems that having a guest account
that doesn't really exist breaks browsing, which breaks the PDC
functionality, which broke everything I was trying to do.

I could have sworn that has been set that way for months, but changing it
fixed the problem...