win2k joining Samba 2.2.2 PDC problems.

[Jeremy Porter]

sure enough. although the howto is a little unclear, as it only states that
only the root can be used to create machine accounts like this.  Under the
creating machine trust accounts "on the fly".  Which is not quite the same
as saying that you are required to join to domain as root.

The older howto's don't mention this at all, and only give the manual
method of creating machine trust accounts.  FYI

Thanks, tho.

In message <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112071216120.10896-100000 at pogo.plainjoe.org>, "Geral
d (Jerry) Carter" writes:
>On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Phil Chambers wrote:
>
>>
>> > [2001/12/07 04:13:10, 10] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(168)
>> >   startsmbfilepwent_internal: opening file /usr/local/private/smbpasswd
>> > [2001/12/07 04:13:10, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(171)
>> >   startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /usr/local/private/smbpa
>sswd.
>> > Error was Permission denied
>> > [2001/12/07 04:13:10, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwrid(1459)
>> >   unable to open passdb database.
>>
>> I had just reached this same position myself when trying to work out why W2k
> will
>> not authenticate against my SAMBA PDC.  I have had several permissions probl
>ems with
>> SAMBA and have had to make various directories and files world-readable.  Ho
>wever, I
>> understand that smbpasswd needs to be tightly restricted for security concer
>ns, so
>> have not tried to solve this problem by making it world-readable.
>>
>> So, any help will be appreciated by at least two of us!
>
>You need to join the domain as root (as specified in the Samba-PDC-HOWTO.
>
>
>
>
>chau, jerry
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> www.samba.org              SAMBA  Team             jerry_at_samba.org
> www.plainjoe.org                                jerry_at_plainjoe.org
> http://www.hp.com        Hewlett-Packard      gerald_carter_at_hp.com
> --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca--
>

--- jerry at fc.net
Freeside Orbitial Construction Corps