[Samba] Samba 2.2.3a joining windows 2000 domain

[Lennard Bakker]

On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 14:04, Steve Dinn wrote:
> 
> Hello.  I'm trying to integrate my samba 2.2.3a linux server into my
> Windows 2000 domain structure.  The domain is EMPIRE and the only DC is
> VADER.  The smbpasswd results are as follows:
> 
> $ ./smbpasswd -j empire -r vader
> cli_net_auth2: Error NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT 
> cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed
> modify_trust_password: unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine
> VADER. Error was : NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT.
> 2002/03/22 09:00:17 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change
> password for domain EMPIRE.
> Unable to join domain EMPIRE.

I got the same result with some boxes. The only thing that the boxes had
in commen, was the system name of 15 chars. When i changed to name of
the box to a smaller name (6 chars) everything worked fine.

Lennard