Samba and PDCs

[Doug Douglass]

I got this message the other day when adding a W2K machine to my Samba
2.2.1a + LDAP patch PDC.

My problem was the Samba account I was using to add the machine to the
domain (effectively the root account) did not have permission to modify the
LDAP entry for the machine account. Added ldap root and ldap root passwd to
smb.conf and all was fine.

hope that helps,
Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-ntdom-admin at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Shekhar
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:34 PM
> To: Michael Roantree
> Cc: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: Samba and PDCs
>
>
> U should upgrade to Latest Samba.
>
> Shekhar
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Roantree" <msr at firstoption.com>
> To: <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:34 AM
> Subject: Samba and PDCs
>
>
> > I have build the latest version of samba as of 13 September 2000, it is
> > running on RH7.1 and everything is fine regarding the sharing of files
> etc.
> >
> > When I try to run it as a PDC and try to log onto the domain
> using a 2kpro
> > client I get the following error when trying to use root to log in.
> >
> > 'The account is a user account, Use your global user account or
> local user
> > account to access this server'
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Mike
> >
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