[Samba] Active Directory - Samba 3.0.4

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Joseph.Gaude at gd-ais.com wrote:
| Hello Everyone,
| I'm trying to get Samba 3.0.4 under Solaris 8 to join a Windows AD domain.
|
| I've compiled and configured all the required code.. and all works so
far. I
| can do a kinit username at domain.name and get a ticket from the AD server...
| Samba's smbd and nmbd run, winbind complains about credentials.....
|
| Here's my issue. I don't have any control over the AD server. We have
a 3rd
| party IT support group. And I'm not sure they are adding the samba
server in
| the AD tree correctly.... My problem is, our 3rd party IT guys said he
added
| my machine to the ad domain, but, I can't join, nor is the machine
| searchable through MS networking, so, I don't think he added it right.
|
| My question is: Is there any way to join an AD domain without
| having to know the administrators password? If so, how?


I've got a bug report in the net command when joining a domain
and using a non-default ou for storing the computer accounts?
Does this description fit ?  If so I can send you a workaround.




cheers, jerry
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