[Samba] 3.0.1pre1 PDC and Win2K joining Domain

Pat Hagge pat at theewok.net
Wed Nov 5 16:38:42 GMT 2003


I am having that same problem right now, but I don't use LDAP. Any ideas? I 
have one WinXP machine working fine, but the 2nd doesn't. I'm not too 
familiar with checking SIDs.

Pat Hagge

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---------- Original Message -----------
From: "Mark" <mark at co.robeson.nc.us>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:29:42 -0500
Subject: [Samba] 3.0.1pre1 PDC and Win2K joining Domain

> Hi All-
> 
> When I tried to join a Windows 2K workstation to my Samba 3.0 + LDAP
> PDC, I was getting the error: 'No mapping between account names and
> security IDs was done'.
> 
> After scouring the mailing list, I found out that I wasn't the only one
> with the problem, but it seems like nobody ever got an answer 
> (publicly, at least).  With all the configuration changes and tweaks 
> to my server, somehow, somewhere along the line the domain SID got 
> changed (or I never set it in the smbldap_conf.pm, a more likely 
> scenario).  In any case, once I discovered the error, I went through 
> and changed the user and group SID to match the domain SID (from net 
> getlocalsid).  That done, I tried once again to join my 2K 
> workstation to the domain and met with success!
> 
> So, if you're (still) getting that error, check your SIDs.
> 
> Thanks to everyone who asks the questions, and more thanks to those who
> provide answers.
> 
> Hope this helps someone,
> 
> Mark
> 
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