Is it me or a bug or what?

[Gerald Carter]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Campbell, Rob wrote:

> Please help me you must have figured out something I did not. I am trying to
> setup a Primary Domain Controller and cannot get computers on the domain.
> What am I doing wrong and did you run into this? Whenever I try to add a
> machine to the domain (I am using root account as mentioned in the samba
> documents) it says you are using a computer account use a local or global
> account. Any ideas? I have spent DAYS on this. I am running 2.2 samba on
> Mandrake 8 and I configure it from SWAT. Please help a newbie to this samba
> PDC thing.

Did you read the HOWTO?  Get the PDF file from the "Documentation" page on
samba.org.  Ther error message you aregetting is most likely caused by
your 'add user script' failing.








Cheers, jerry
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