[Samba] Problem to logon samba 2.2.2 PDC

[John Benedetto]

Can you re-send your message PLAIN TEXT, so we can understand (and not possibly confuse things further)?

Did you use the "-m" option to specify that you were creating a machine account?  The "U" in the line from smbpasswd looks to me like it is a user account, not a machine account.

- john

--On Monday, February 11, 2002 17:25 +0100 Tomas Spångberg <tomas.spangberg at jarlmagnussonab.se> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Thanks for the advise, but "unfortunately&#8221; I didn&#8217;t use
> &#8220;$&#8221; in the command line, any other suggestions?
>
> // Tomas
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Benedetto" <jbenedet at unm.edu>
> To: "Tomas Spångberg" <tomas.spangberg at jarlmagnussonab.se>;
> <samba at lists.samba.org>  Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Problem to logon samba 2.2.2 PDC
>
> --On Monday, February 11, 2002 09:58 +0100 Tomas Spångberg
> <tomas.spangberg at jarlmagnussonab.se> wrote:
>
>> "The system cannot log you on to this domain because the systems computer
>> account in it's primary domain is missing or the password on that account
>> is incorrect"
>>
>> Entry in /etc/samba/smbpasswd:
>>
>> w2kws1$:542:BBCA0958D1A52181AAD3B435B51404EE:7AD455162B4AD989BDE4D7188C08
>> 23AC:[U          ]:LCT-3C61A7CA:
>
> When you added the machine account, what _exact_ command line did you
> execute?
>
> You should have done this:
> smbpasswd -a -m w2kws1
> NOT this:
> smbpasswd -a w2kws1$
>
> The -m switch tells Samba this is a _machine_ account, and automagically
> adds the "$"  character for you.
>
> Is that it?
>
> - John