[Samba] Re: Domain password server not available

[Gary Heitman]

Did you specify the "PDC" in your smb.conf or are you broadcasting for 
it? (eg. "password server = *")

Can you resolve the domain controller from your Samba machine?

good luck,
gary

Theewara Vorakosit wrote:
> Dear All,
>    I set up Windows 2000 domain controller. I run samba 2.2.7a-8.9.0 on 
> Red Hat 9. I try to setup samba as a child of Windows 2000 domain. By 
> smbpasswd -j ..... as mention in samba document. It display:
> 
> smbpasswd: Joined domain DOM.
> 
> But when I can not browse shared directory via Windows. Here is the log 
> file.
> 
> [2003/04/21 17:35:06, 0] rpc_client/cli_netlogon.c:cli_net_req_chal(246)
>  cli_net_req_chal: Error NT_STATUS_INVALID_COMPUTER_NAME
> [2003/04/21 17:35:06, 0] rpc_client/cli_login.c:cli_nt_setup_creds(47)
>  cli_nt_setup_creds: request challenge failed
> [2003/04/21 17:35:06, 0] 
> smbd/password.c:connect_to_domain_password_server(1367)
>  connect_to_domain_password_server: unable to setup the PDC credentials 
> to machine PRGSERVICE.CPE.KU.AC.TH. Error was : NT_STATUS_OK.
> [2003/04/21 17:35:06, 0] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1599)
>  domain_client_validate: Domain password server not available.
> 
> Would you please tell me how to solve this problem?
> Thanks,
> Theewara
>