Error joining Samba domain with Windows 2000 Pro

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, John Brown wrote:

> I am getting the following message when I try to add my Windows 2000 Pro SP3
> machine to the Samba domain.
> 
> "The following error occurred validating the name "xxxxx"
> This condition may be caused by a DNS lookup problem...
> 
> The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted."
> 
> I can see and access the server from the workgroup.

I have seen this when nmbd is not running.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com