[Samba] Joining a Domain With NT4 PDC Instructions Don't Work
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at pcug.org.au
Tue Apr 2 13:54:15 GMT 2002
Harvey Wamboldt wrote:
>
> Keywords: samba, NT4, PDC, smbpasswd, problem, "join domain"
> NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT,
> "unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine"
>
> Version: samba-2.2.3a, built on SPARC/Solaris 5.7 with gcc.
> I eventually figured this out from smbpasswd(8). Perhaps this is a
> bug since one would think that running:
>
> smbpasswd -j <DOM> -r <PDC> -UAdministrator%password
>
> would accomplish the same thing, but in my case at least it doesn't.
This does work, its just that there was a big/little endien bug in Samba
2.2 at the time of the release.
The other method is inheriently insecure, as the password is set to a
known value until the machine changes it during the join.
Andrew Bartlett
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