[Samba] problem joining the domain

[Michael Rasmussen]

As in:

	smbpasswd -j COLUMBIA -r cmc-bkup

What the ...

Yes, that's what you mean and yes it worked.

When I went to check with the domain admins to verify the addition of the
machine one of them replied, "well, yes. since the machine was already in
the domain."

Which translates to me to mean:

	If machine is defined in the domain do
		smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC 
	else
		smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC -U DOMAIN_ADMIN



Thank you Jim.

		

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  Michael Rasmussen - Network Engineer, Columbia Management
  voice:  971-925-6723  cell:  503-807-1447  rasmussenm at columbiafunds.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Van Sickler, Jim [mailto:vansickj-eodc at Kaman.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:23 AM
> To: 'Michael Rasmussen'; samba at lists.samba.org
> Cc: IT Server Group
> Subject: RE: [Samba] problem joining the domain
> 
> 
> Did you create the Computer in the Domain first?
> Try that (without the -U murphyn).
> 
> Jim
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Rasmussen [mailto:rasmussenm at columbiafunds.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 8:15 AM
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Cc: IT Server Group
> > Subject: [Samba] problem joining the domain
> > 
> > 
> > We've encountered a problem with getting a newly installed 
> Samba based
> > machine to join the domain.
> > 
> > Here's the command line and error response:
> > 
> >    [root at chain samba]# smbpasswd -j COLUMBIA -r cmc-bkup -U murphyn
> >    Password:
> >    error creating domain user: NT_STATUS_INVALID_DOMAIN_ROLE
> >    Unable to join domain COLUMBIA.
> >    [root at chain samba]#
> > 
> > Installation is a RedHat 7.2 (from KRUD) box with freshly 
> > installed Samba
> > RPMs version 2.2.3a-6.  smb.conf was created by a cut and 
> paste from a
> > working installation on another box on our network, changing 
> > the server name
> > and share paths as necessary.
> > 
> > murphyn is a domain admin for COLUMBIA, the PDC (cmc-bkup) 
> > and the BDC are
> > NT4 boxes.
> > 
> > As the Linux guy I don't know what this error message means.  
> > The NT admins
> > are at a loss to explain the problem.
> > 
> > Curiosities:
> > 
> > 	I've used the same software version to add a box to our domain
> > 	Essentially the same config is used on the working and 
> > non-working
> > boxes, so I'm puzzled about what configuration issue could be 
> > causing this.
> > 
> > Bottom Line Question:
> > 
> >   do you know what causes this error and how I can resolve 
> > this issue and
> > have the machine chain join the COLUMBIA domain?
> > 
> >   Where did I miss whatever it is in the documentation?
> > 
> > --  
> >   Michael Rasmussen - Network Engineer, Columbia Management
> >   voice:  971-925-6723  cell:  503-807-1447  
> > rasmussenm at columbiafunds.com
> >   <mailto:rasmussenm at columbiafunds.com> http://www.columbiafunds.com
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