[Samba] re: joining a w2k machine to a samba domain

[Neil Muller]

Because the replies to my question came direct to my email and not 
through the list I thought others with the same problem might benefit if 
I summarised the way in which I solved the problem of adding a w2k 
workstation to a domain managed by a samba pdc.

(1) make sure your samba is up to date. I actually used samba 2.2.3a but 
am about to upgrade to 2.2.4
(2) read the docs on the samba.org site, in particular the combined 
howtos in pdf format
(3) set up and test your smb.conf using testparm. I actually did it in 3 
stages (the final stage was based on the help I received from the email 
replies to my original posting)
(4) stage 1: set up your initial smb.conf and make sure samba is working 
for your W9x environment
(5) stage 2:
   (a) configure your smb.conf as per the model supplied in the combined 
howtos mentioned above
   (b) create the machine trust account referred to in the docs. I did 
this manually but the docs also show how this can be done by samba 
itself which is the recommended approach
   (c) read the man pages for smb.conf several times and add in all the 
bits that you've missed above in particular add in settings in the 
global area of smb.conf for 'domain admin group = root' and 'domain 
admin users = root'
(6) stage 3:
       (a) check out

http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/samba-pdc-faq.html

http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/samba-pdc-howto.html

   (b) make root a samba user (yeah I know I was stupid not to have 
thought of this first but we can't all be perfect)

(7) login to your w2k box as administrator and add the box to your new 
(NT4) domain. When prompted for a domain user with permission to add the 
w2k machine enter your root userid and password. Reboot the w2k box when 
prompted and login to your samba domain in the usual way.

Hope someone else finds this useful.

Neil