[Samba] joining a samba pdc domain

[Howard Miller]

Sorry... forget that bit about 2nd point - I can't count!

Also, have you found and checked the logs yet? Does anything get written to 
the log when this fails? It usualy does.

H.

On Wednesday 06 Aug 2003 3:10 pm, Howard Miller wrote:
> Errmmm....
>
> http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html#AEN140
>2
>
> 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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