[Samba] Joining domain XP

[Trevor Fraser]

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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