[Samba] Problems using Samba as a PDC

[Gerald Carter]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Homann, Mathias wrote:

> Bobby Mitchell wrote:
> > 
> > I'm trying to use Samba 2.2.3a on RedHat 7.2 for a PDC and can't get
> > Win2k to even acknowledge that the domain exists. I am attaching my
> > smb.conf. the error message is: "The specified domain either does not
> > exist or could not be contacted"
> 
> 
> 
> been there, done that, ethersniffed it. the problem is NOT samba. win2k
> seems to try to speak something vaguely resembling HTTP on port 80 to
> some weird multicast address in order to find a PDC. Now I really would
> like to have

Can you send me traces?  Thanks.








cheers, jerry
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