Joining domain without specifying the domain controller's nam e ...

[Richard Sharpe]

Hmmmm,

This was a case of user error ...

I figured out what the actual syntax was from Matt's message, and 
magically, code that is based on CVS from last week, works:

That is: smbpasswd -j <domain> -U<user>%<pass> -r *

Thanks ... (sorry Matt :-)

ZINKEVICIUS,MATT (HP-Loveland,ex1) wrote:

>You weren't wrong. This worked in samba 2.2.2 by setting password server=*,
>but has been broken in cvs for a while. It was one of 3 problems I brought
>up a couple weeks ago and got no answers on
>(http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba-technical/2002-January/033872.html)
>
>Matt Zinkevicius
>Software Engineer
>Network Storage Array Solutions
>Hewlett-Packard
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Richard Sharpe [mailto:sharpe at ns.aus.com]
>>Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 3:38 PM
>>To: samba-technical at samba.org
>>Subject: Joining domain without specifying the domain 
>>controller's name
>>...
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I thought that it was possible with some version of Samba to join a 
>>domain without knowing the domain controllers name.
>>
>>Was I wrong?
>>
>>-- 
>>Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, LPIC-1
>>www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba 
>>in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba
>>
>>
>>
>

-- 
Richard Sharpe, rsharpe at ns.aus.com, LPIC-1
www.samba.org, www.ethereal.com, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba 
in 24 Hours, Special Edition, Using Samba