Samba as a member server in W2k

[Noel Kelly]

Not sure if this will help Stan, but I am running a similar setup and here
are a couple of things if you haven't tried them already:

1. Have the Win2000 guys ticked the box "Allow pre-Windows2000 computers to
use this account" ?  Samba will appear as NT4.

2. I join the domain with simply 'smbpasswd -j domainname' - and have the
'password server = domaincontroller' set in smb.conf.

Cheers,
Noel

-----Original Message-----
From: Stan S. [mailto:sgs9198 at attbi.com]
Sent: 19 January 2002 01:02
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: Samba as a member server in W2k


Good evening,
I am having some difficulties adding a samba 2.2.2 server onto a W2K domain.
 
We have a very large W2k  :( setup with many OU's, operational units is what
the windows guys call them. They claim to have created a machine account for
the samba box but I always get a message that "unable to change trust
account password" unable to join the domain. The command that I use is:
smbpasswd -j domainname -r domaincontroller -U myusername
I am then prompted for a password and that is when the message occurs.
 
Do any of you samba masters have any ideas?
 
Best regards
Stan