[Samba] joining a samba pdc domain

Howard Miller howard.miller at udcf.gla.ac.uk
Wed Aug 6 14:10:41 GMT 2003


Errmmm....

http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN1402

second point maybe.


H.

On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 3:07 pm, you wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 09:42:05 +0100 Howard Miller wrote:
> > What exactly do you mean by "it then fails", what exactly happens. Just a
> > thought - have you tried rebooting the machine and logging in as the
> > local
> > administrator before you try joining the domain.
>
> yes
>
> >It won't work if
> > there are
> > shares open.
>
> no share open
>
> what i mean is that after sending the root name and password, i get an
> error message saying the windows was unable to contact or join the
> domain.  I think it is basically telling me that it can't authenticate my
> root password, but i have added root to my smbpasswd several times!
>
> > H.
> >
> > On Tuesday 05 Aug 2003 8:53 pm, samseaver at northwestern.edu wrote:
> > > dear all,
> > >
> > > i will outline the problem im having before posting my smb.conf, just
> > > in case someone knows what to trouble-check.
> > >
> > > i have a samba PDC set-up, no firewalls, the windows machine WILL mount
> > > the shares fine, but it wont join the domain.
> > >
> > > I mean that I have entered the machine name as a trust account into
> > > both passwd and smbpasswd, and when I join the domain in win2k, it
> > > actually asks me for my username and password, and i enter my root name
> > > and password.
> > >
> > > however, it then fails.  I cant figure it out, everything else works,
> > > except the final authentication to allow my win2k machine join the
> > > samba domain.
> > >
> > > 1) what ./configure options MUST be set?
> > > 2) what's the minimum global configuration?
> > > 3) what's the minimal win2k settting (i disabled WINS and set-up the
> > > LMHOSTS file to have one line, which is the samba server)
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Sam Seaver
> >
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