[Samba] Users/Machines Unable to Logon to Samba PDC

[System Administrator]

Never mind...  I found the problem.  Actually, I caused the problem.

I was removing some obsolete user IDs when I removed the "guest" account.
Not knowing how closely tied it was to Samba.  Once the ID was
re-established, users (machines) were once again able to logon.

So, as an FYI...  the guest account is very important for machines to be
able to authenticate to a Samba PDC server.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Support" <support at itcaonline.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:07 PM
Subject: [Samba] Users/Machines Unable to Logon to Samba PDC


> I have Samba 2.2.7 running on RedHat Linux 7.3 (kernel 2.4.18)...  the
system has been running just fine since the initial install four plus months
ago.  All of a sudden, starting this mid-morning, users are unable to logon
to their Windows 2000 machines.  They receive the following message:
>
> "The system cannot log you on to this domain because the system's computer
account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account is
incorrect."
>
> These same users were able to logon just fine yesterday...  and some were
able to logon just fine this morning...  but now nobody can logon.
>
> Thinking that the computer account had gone bad for some reason, I changed
the workstation from being a member of a domain to a member of a workgroup,
then I deleted the account from Samba (using "smbpasswd -x computer$"), then
from Linux (using "userdel computer$").  I then had the computer join the
domain, and was welcomed to the domain.  After reboot, the same error
message.
>
> If I logon locally to the computer, I am able to map drives (using "net
use x: \\server\share /user:username password).  I am also able to perform a
"net use" on the server.
>
> What can I do and/or test to further determine what the problem is?
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