[Samba] Windows 2000 logon error

[John T. Benedetto]

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Adam Williams wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I removed jrogers and jrogers$ by hand from smbpasswd earlier and added
> him back and it had no effect.  But I did what you said:
> 
> smbpasswd -x jrogers
> smbpasswd -x jrogers$
> smbpasswd -a jrogers
> smbpasswd -a -m jrogers
> 
> and then tryied logging in again, but I still have the same error.
> 
> 			Adam

Once you deleted the machine account (the "jrodgers$" account in
smbpasswd, which you added back in with the command "smbpasswd -a -m
jrodgers"), you would need to re-add the machine to the domain (from the
Windows client itself), would you not?

- john

> 
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, smw wrote:
> 
> > I had a similar problems yesterday as well, except I had changed where I
> > wanted my profiles stored, as I'm already running a Win2k home network.
> >
> > What I did was remove the user from the smbpasswd file, and then added him
> > again.  So it looked like this:
> >
> > smbpasswd -x me
> > smbpasswd -a me
> >
> > Worked like a charm, as it automatically updated this settings.
> >
> > HTH.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Scott