[Samba] Stuck on Problem with Joining Domains...please help!

[Örn Hansen]

  I've been fighting the same problem myself, and others too, alas with ldap 
backend.  Here's what I've come by, so far, and might be useful to you.

  1.  You need to provide "admin users" in the global section, and make sure 
the user there exists in smbpaswd.  This is the user, you type in when adding 
the machine to the domain.  You can't use "root" as with 2.x.

  2.  The script you are using, to add machines ... you need to make sure that 
it creates the trailing dollar sign to the name.  I don't think samba 
provides the "username$" for the machine at that point, and you need to 
provide it by issuing "%u$", but check this to be sure.

On Sunday 19 October 2003 05:04, siavush at spin.it wrote:
> after many hours of tries,  I am still stuck with a simple: I have Samba
> 3.0.1 ore running fine on a red hat 9.0 box (installed from RPM) when I try
> to  join a domain I get the infamous invalid user name or bad password
> error from the Win2K SP2 machines. I am really getting lost here, I have
> checked the root password in smbpasswd database and have used the smbpasswd
> command, I still get that error. Any help would be greatly appreciated....
> this is my smb.conf as given by testparm
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup = LPHGROUP
>         server string = Samba Server
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password*
> %n\\n*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* username map
> = /etc/samba/smbusers
>         password level = 8
>         username level = 8
>         unix password sync = Yes
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 50
>         name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s
> /bin/false -M %u logon path = \\\\%L\\Profiles\\%U
>         domain logons = Yes
>         os level = 33
>         preferred master = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         dns proxy = No
>         wins support = Yes
>         remote announce = 172.16.2.255
>         hosts allow = 172.16.
>         printing = lprng
>         preserve case = No
>         short preserve case = No
>
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         read only = No
>         browseable = No
>
> [netlogon]
>         comment = Network Logon Service
>         path = /home/profiles
>         guest ok = Yes
>         browseable = No
>         share modes = No
>
> [printers]
>         comment = Temporary file space
>         path = /tmp
>         read only = No
>         guest ok = Yes
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
>
> [public]
>         comment = Public Stuff
>         path = /home/samba
>         write list = @staff
>         guest ok = Yes
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