Samba connecting to NT PDC

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 kevin.clarke at lister-petter.co.uk wrote:

Kevin,

1) You did create a machine account (for an NT Workstation or Server)
using the Server Manager on the NT4 Domain?

	Joining the domain will NOT work unless you do.

2) Try:
	smbpasswd -j lister -r cat -Uadministrator
and when prompted type in the domain administrator password.

3) Make sure that the "wins server = 172.16.10.70" points to a machine
other than your samba server. ie: I guess this is your one of your NT
domain controllers?

4) Last point: Make sure that samba is NOT running when you try to join
the domain, you can safely start it AFTER it has joined the domain.

- John T.

> Have a problem connecting Samba 2.2.7 on Redhat Linux 7.2 to a Win NT 4
> PDC.  I have set the following in the smb.conf file:-
>
> security = domain
> password server = CAT
> encrypt passwords = yes
> local master = no
> os level = 0
> domain master = no
> preferred master = no
> domain logons = no
> wins server = 172.16.10.70
> dns proxy = no
>
>
> I have entered the Samba server as a Machine in the Server Manager.
>
> When I use the command:-
>
> smbpasswd -j lister -r CAT
>
>
> I get the following error message:-
>
> modify_trust_password: unable to connect to SMB server on machine CAT.
> Error was : code 0.
> 2002/12/10 14:49:15 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change
> password for domain LISTER.
> Unable to join domain LISTER.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Kevin Clarke
> IT Support Engineer
> Tel: 01453 541160
>
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org