[Samba] winbindd/Samba3 on RHEL 3.0 [RESOLVED]

[Chris Purcell]

> Samba 3.0.2
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3.0
>
>
> I'm trying to set up winbind and all of the wbinfo commands are failing.
>  I was able to join the domain with this command...
>
> root at tux samba# net join -S typhoon -U Administrator
> Administrator password:
> [2004/03/25 16:53:46, 0] libads/kerberos.c:ads_kinit_password(133)
>   kerberos_kinit_password Administrator at foo.org failed: Cannot find KDC
> for requested realm
> Joined domain FOO.
>
> ...but all of the wbinfo commands fail..
>
> root at tux samba# wbinfo -u
> Error looking up domain users
>
> root at tux samba# wbinfo -t
> checking the trust secret via RPC calls failed
> error code was NT_STATUS_DOMAIN_CONTROLLER_NOT_FOUND (0xc0000233)
> Could not check secret
>
> root at tux samba# wbinfo -a jdoe%password
> plaintext password authentication failed
> error code was NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER (0xc0000064)
> error messsage was: No such user
> Could not authenticate user jdoe%password with plaintext password
> challenge/response password authentication failed
> error code was NT_STATUS_NO_LOGON_SERVERS (0xc000005e)
> error messsage was: No logon servers
> Could not authenticate user jdoe with challenge/response
>
>
> getent passwd and getent group DO work though.
>
>
> I've done this before in the past on Red Hat 9 machines and it worked
> everytime.   Maybe this problem has something to do with the fact that
> this server is on a different subnet from the domain controllers?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris


I fixed this problem by running this command...

net rpc join -U Administrator

Before that, I was using "net join -S PDC -U Administrator", which seemed
to work, but didn't.

Can someone please tell me why this worked to begin with?  I'm not sure
what the difference is.

Thanks,
Chris