3.0 requires an admin account to join samba to a domain?

[Ken Cross]

To Jerry's original question:  it seems to fail without an admin
username/pw.  With the old smbpasswd, it would work if a machine account
was first set up on the PDC -- now it doesn't.

Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: samba-technical-admin at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-technical-admin at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Gerald
(Jerry) Carter
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 3:10 PM
To: Jim McDonough
Cc: samba-technical at samba.org
Subject: Re: 3.0 requires an admin account to join samba to a domain?


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On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Jim McDonough wrote:

> 
> >Can someone confirm or deny that there is not net equivalent of 
> >"smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -R PDC" in HEAD?  All I see requires an admin 
> >username/pw
> 
> Just net rpc join should do it.
> 
> Try "net help rpc join"

I found it.  Who came up with the function names?  They're horrible!





jerry
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