[Samba] Able to join samba PDC but not able to login.

[Deryk Robosson]

Arunachalam G wrote:
> windows machine is able to join the samba server which is the primary
> domain controller. but on the next time when the system boots it not able
> to login to that domain.
> 
> the machine account for that windows machine exist in smbpasswd file, with
> null password.

[SNIP]

According to the information found: 
http://samba.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN1189 
there, both the smbpasswd file AND the passwd files need to have the 
machine account.  BTW, that doc is quite a wonderful piece. :)

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