[Samba] Correct syntax for joining NT domain?

[Andrew Bartlett]

Jim Watt wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 May 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> } It is better to simply rejoin the domain from the unix command line:
> }
> } smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC -Uadministrator
> 
> I tried that syntax  from a Samba/2.2.4 FreeBSD installation.  The attempt
> failed.  I set the debug level to 10, and discovered that the connection
> attempt was being made to a completely bogus IP address!  So I dropped
> the '-r PDC' argument, since it looked like the code in smbpasswd would
> figure out the PDC without specifying it.  That worked fine!  "nmblookup"
> has no difficulty resolving the PDC's name to its correct IP address.
> 
> Some sort of bug lurks there... :)

Can you chase this up a bit more?  Find where the bougs IP is coming
from etc?

I mention the '-r PDC' becouse it was required in previous versions -
which would otherwise default to localhost.  As you state, in 2.2.4 we
now correctly find the PDC.

Andrew Bartlett

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