Problems using samba as a PDC

[Alex]

did you add the NT-machine accounts to the samba-PDC in the /etc/passwd and
/etc/samba/smbpasswd files ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pietro Regis" <pietro.regis at darts.it>
To: <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 11:05 AM
Subject: Problems using samba as a PDC


> Hi,
> We are trying to use samba as a PDC, and we have the following problem.
>
> We have a NT Server PDC, but it's a very old machine, so we want to
> substitute it with a Linux Server runnig samba as a PDC.
> All the user's profiles are stored locally on the NT Clients, and we don't
> want to use roaming profiles.
> The Linux Server is correctly configured as a PDC, it uses samba 2.2.1a
and
> has the same name and the same IP Address of the NT Server.
> When we shut down the NT Server and start the Linux Server, all the NT
> Clients fail when a user tries to log into the domain, and we see the
> following error:
>
> The system cannot log you on to this domain because the system's computer
> account in its primary is missing or the password on that account is
invalid
>
> We succeed in logging into the domain only if we execute the following
> operations:
> we log into the NT Client locally as administrator;
> we successfully join to a dummy workgroup and restart the PC;
> we log into the NT Client as administrator;
> we successfully join to the domain and restart the PC.
>
> The problem is that if we execute these steps, when an user log into the
NT
> machines he has assigned the default profile, and not the local profile he
> has when we use the NT Server as a PDC.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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