Problem with W2K -Login

Pierre Burri pierre at globeall.de
Tue Oct 9 01:26:03 GMT 2001


Hi Sebastian

You have to add user "root" in your smbpasswd and than join the domain the 
first time with root. Afterwards you can use any other account.

cheers, Pierre

On Tuesday 09 October 2001 09:17, you wrote:
> Hi all,
> my PDC under Samba works fine (with 25 x Win9X).
> Now I try to login with W2K.
> I Have Samba 2.2.1a and W2K sp1 !
>
> First adding the account to the UNIX-password-file
> # adduser -d /dev/null -s /bin/false <ntmachine$>
> Second adding the smbpassword
> # smbpasswd -a -m <ntmachine>
>
>
> The error message from Windows is:
> "Unknown user or bad password"
>
> "/var/log/samba/log.smbd" says
> "startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>    Error was Permission denied"
>
>
> What can I do???
>
> Thanks
> Sebastian Wern

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