[Samba] Questions about W2K and SAMBA PDC

[Buchan Milne]

> Message: 9
> From: "Alberto Chacon (LINUX)" <infolinux at fratec.com>
> To: samba at samba.org
> Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 21:14:16 -0600
> Subject: [Samba] Questions about W2K and SAMBA PDC
> 
> Hello my name is Alberto and I write from San Jose Costa Rica.
> 
> I was install Mandrake 9.0 and SAMBA version 2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2mdk.
> 
> I try to join the machine with SO W2K at the domain.  I was defined
> the machine_name$ include the $ sign into the machine name.
> 
> I change the computer from workgroup to domain and windows sayme
> "welcome to domain xxx", and restart the computer.
> 
> When try to make logon from the panel, I put the root user and root
> password and the machine say me 
> 
> " ... the system computer account in this PDC is missing or the
> password is incorrect".


Did you add an smbpasswd for root before doing this?

As root:
# smbpasswd -a

Then, use this password when prompted.

Also, you may want to look briefly at 
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/muo/connect/csamba6.html

Regards,
Buchan

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