[Samba] Joining domain XP
Trevor Fraser
trevor at systematic.co.za
Tue Sep 10 11:32:01 GMT 2002
Hello Karen/Owen.
I've recently (this morning on a XP laptop) tried a new-to-me step of joining a domain, it worked first time. I deleted the previous entries for this PC in /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow and /etc/samba/smbpasswd. In swat under global in the 'add user script'. This is an example for a RedHat system, so you must tweak it accordingly.
[global]
...
add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g (a machine trust group that must already exist, like 'machines') -s /bin/false -M %u
Another thing is instead of using root, put a user in 'admin user =' under [global] and use that user to join the domain.
Hope this helps, e-mail me if you want to me to elaborate.
Chow, Trevor.
----- Original Message -----
From: Karen
To: samba at samba.org
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 5:42 PM
Subject: [Samba] Joining domain XP
Have set up machine accounts as recommended in your docs, using root as authority to change to domain but half of the XP clients complain 'specified user does not exist'. This problem is not consistent and has occurred seemingly at random with a test XP pro workstation on continually attempting to leave & then rejoin the domain - any ideas out there?
Please reply to owen at sense3d.com
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