[Samba] Error Trying to Join Win2k to Samba 2.2.5 Domain

[David Morel]

Mike Tibor wrote:
 > I've got 2.2.5 running on a test server (RH Linux 6.2), and I'm trying to
 > get a Win2k box to join the domain, but I'm getting the following errors:
 >
 > (at log level 3)
 >
 > [2002/07/18 12:26:25, 2] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(170)
 >   startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /etc/smbpasswd.
 >   Error was Permission denied
 > [2002/07/18 12:26:25, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwrid(1416)
 >   unable to open passdb database
 >
 > I've already added the account for the machine and user to both the 
system
 > passwd file and /etc/smbpasswd.
 >

did you use user root to join the machine to the domain ?