[Samba] what does "Secret is bad" mean for "wbinfo -t"

[Sarris, Chris]

Herb,
thanks for the reply.
I am using Red Hat 7.2 --- on set of notes says use server manager to add
the computer to the Nt 4 domain and then do the "smbpasswd" with the -j and
-r options. Another set of instructions (the latest from samba.org for the
windbindd setup) says just do the smbpasswd command with the -j -r and -U
options if you have an administrator password. From an NT perspective that
should work fine... as we sometimes add a computer to the domain via Server
Manager and then complete the operation or we do it at the client computer
and supply an Administrator password to do both at once (add to Server
Manager and add to Domain).

Perphas this is not the case with the smbpasswd command? I don't know. I
just assumed you could do it either way.

the curious this is that I must have joined the domain because the "wbinfo
-u" and "wbinfo -g" gives me a list of all the users and groups on the NT
domain. So it is working.... but I just don't understand the output of
"wbinfo -t" --- what should it say if everything is working fine?

What is the process for *Un-joining* a domain and then re-joining a domain?
What if I want to disconnect from one domain and join a different one? I am
assuming that I can only join one domain at a time and then rely on trust
relationships to contact other domains? Is this true -

thanks for all your help,
chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Herb Lewis [mailto:herb at sgi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 8:12 AM
To: Sarris, Chris
Subject: Re: [Samba] what does "Secret is bad" mean for "wbinfo -t"


You didn't say what OS you were running. the -U option had a problem
with big-endian systems. It would say you joined the domain when in
fact there was a problem. You had to create the account with server
manager and then join without the -U option to smbpasswd.

"Sarris, Chris" wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> I am implementing winbind with Samba-2.2.3a on a NT 4.0 network .... I
> joined the domain previously with "smbpasswd -j Domain -r NTPDC -U
> Administrator" and I was notified that I was joined to the domain.
> 
> Later when I tried to query and make sure the machine account was active
> with "wbinfo -t" this came back:
> 
> "Secret is bad
> 0xc00000e5"
> 
> I have smbd, nmbd, and windbindd running in ps -leaf
> and I am able to get users and groups from the NT domain using "wbinfo -u"
> or "wbinfo -g"
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> thanks tons,
> Chris
> 
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