Weird Windows Messenger and Samba Domain problem

[Alessandro Oliveira]

Hi Rob,

You should have created the machine accounts before trying to join the
domain, for example:

your windows machine is called for example WORK001, you must create an unix
account work001$ and then run smbpasswd -a -m work001.

then you should connect as a local administrator and try to join the domain.
Note that you have to supply the root login and password at the end of this
procedure.

if you have any success please let me know.

About my problem, I've just figured out that if I add my domain account to
the local Power Users group, when I connect to the domain my messenger
works, but I could only add user accounts, I couldn't add the DOMAIN\Domain
Users to the local Power Users group. This is not a very useful workaround
because it's not very effective.

Good Luck,

Alessandro Oliveira

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Secombe" <robseco at teksupport.net.au>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 4:25 AM
Subject: Re: Weird Windows Messenger and Samba Domain problem


> Hi Alessandro,
>
> Sorry, I can't be of assistance to you as you are further down the track
> than I am, but you may be able to help me out.
>
> I can't even get Win XP clients to join a domain, I must be missing
> something. I have done the registry hack, and tried manually and using an
> add user script to create trust accounts to no avail. Would it be possible
> for you email me a sanitised copy of your smb.conf file and let me know
how
> you went about setting up trust accounts and joining the domain with XP.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob Secombe
> Melbourne Australia
>
> At 03:53 16/01/02 -0800, Alessandro Oliveira wrote:
> >   I'm having a very weird problem here.    I've just configured a Samba
> >Domain with roaming  profiles in my RH 7.2 box, Loaded the necessary
> >registry settings on my Windows  XP pro Clients, I created the necessary
> >machine accounts and the Windows XP  clients joined the domain without
any
> >problem. But after a couple of hours I  noticed that the Windows
Messenger
> >wasn't starting when I'm connected to the  domain, but when I'm connected
> >using any local accounts it works without any  problem.   I'd like to
know
> >if anybody have a clue if this is  a user rights problem and how could I
> >manage to get it working.   Thanks for any help.   Alessandro Oliveira
> >Brazil
>
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