[Samba] Having problems getting RH72 Samba to join a W2K Domain

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On 29 Jan 2003, Ben Keepper wrote:

> I actually did it successfully on a test network 
> (the Win2K is mixed-mode), but when I took the same Samba server
> and plugged it into the real network, I could't get
> "smbpasswd -j bottlerocket.com" to fly.

give the netbios name of the domain instead.

> [global]
> 	password server = 192.168.2.159
> 	workgroup = bottlerocket.com

You might also want to specify the netbios name is to avoid
things like "SAMBA.BOTTLEROC" (first 15 characters of 
samba.bottlerocket.com)



cheers, jerry
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