[Samba] Samba 2.2.7 - client computer can NOT log IN.

Irving Carrion icarrion at allinterior.com
Thu Dec 5 15:58:00 GMT 2002


No that was a typo in the message.  Sorry the command I meant was:

smbpasswd -a -m computer1



-----Original Message-----
From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]
On Behalf Of Frank Matthieß
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:46 AM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 2.2.7 - client computer can NOT log IN.

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:16:48AM -0500, Irving Carrion wrote:
> Hello All!
> 
> Any of our workstations who try and log into the domain receive the
> following Windows error: "The system cannot log you on to this domain
> because the system's computer account in its primary domain is missing
> or the password on that account is incorrect".  Ok, good enough...
> 
> If I check the smbpasswd file I can see the machine account and it is
> also in passwd.  So I decide to manually remove it using
> 
> smbpasswd -x -m computer1
> userdel computer1$
> 
> I verify that it is NOT in smbpasswd,passwd,shadow etc....Then
continue
> with
> 
> useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M computer1$
> smbpasswd -a -m computer1$
                           ^
						   ?
Should "smbpasswd -a -m computer1"


Your smbpasswd file must have a wrong  computer1$$ entry. 

Try the smbpasswd command without the trailing $.

-- 
Frank Matthieß
fm+samba at Microdata-pos.de

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