problem when logging on a vampired PDC

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Mon Apr 21 11:50:27 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 17:08, Guillaume LACHENAL wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> attempting to secretly replace our NT PDC, we issue a 'net rpc vampire' 
> on a fresh samba server.
> 
> the problem is when we move a workstation (member of the domain of 
> course) from the subnet A (with NTPDC) to subnet B (with SambaPDC) and 
> try to loggin on the domain, it fails with :
> 
> " The system can't open a session on this domain because the computer's 
> system account in his principal domain is missing or the password is 
> incorrect " (translated from french)
> 
> Inspecting the ldap attributes of this computer object, we can see 
> something strange : all computer accounts (seems to) have "ntPassword" 
> set but not all have "lmPassword" (the computer we use has not)
> 
> Any help/idea welcome !

That bit should not matter - the lmPassword isn't used for computers.  

I'll need to see some debug traces.

Andrew Bartlett

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