[Samba] Handle is unvalid

Bradley W. Langhorst brad at langhorst.com
Thu Sep 26 13:13:01 GMT 2002


On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 23:49, Brandon Hagedorn wrote:
> I have just installed Samba as a PDC controller.  When trying to join a
> Windows XP machine I keep getting this error on the last step in the
> process of joinng the domain and it gives me this error on a pop up
> message
>  
> Your computer could not be joined to the domain because of the following
> error has occurred:
>  The handle is invalid.
>  
>  
> Any suggestions, I already applied the WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg patch
> Thanks for the help in advance, Brandon

make sure that the patch was effective...
there are sometime multiple control sets and you need to update them
all.  Just do a regsearch for signorseal

another possibility - did you create the machine account (ending with a
$) on the PDC?

brad





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