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

[Herb Lewis]

Do you have the domain name listed in smb.conf? Have you tried
restarting
winbindd after you joined the domain? The -U option should have worked 
on Linux to allow you to join the domain but if you didn't restart
winbindd
I have seen some problems.

Typically all you need to do is stop samba (including winbindd), edit
the smb.conf file to change the name to the new domain (and password
server if not using the "*" syntax), run the smbpasswd command with
-j DOMAIN -r PDC -Uadministrator%password and then restart samba
and winbindd.

"Sarris, Chris" wrote:
> 
> 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

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