The account used is a computer account while joining a domain

[Gerald Carter]

On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was trying to join a domain from Win2K, and got the above message
> despite using root to try to join with ...
>
> Has anyone seen this message before?

Normally happens when the add user script fails to add the
machine account to /etc/passwd.





cheers, jerry
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