[Samba] Can't re-add NT box to domain

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 09:18, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> > From:  Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
> > Date:  Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:08:15 -0700
> >
> > If the option to join a domain is in the network properties, then it is
> > not a domain controller. If there is no option to join the domain, then
> > it was set up as a domain controller. It's not at all ambiguous.
> 
> Right.  The machine is not a domain controller.  But the problem is that 
> when we try to add the machine to the domain through that very option,
> we get the error message that I mentioned in my first email:
> 
> 	This computer name is already configured as a domain 
> 	controller on the domain.
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well from your description then, it would seem as though the message is
coming from the PDC which I am assuming to be samba. Check
/var/log/samba/log.ip_address_of_machine and
/var/log/samba/log.NETBIOS_NAME_OF_MACHINE to see if there are any
clues.

On your PDC (is it v3 or 2.2.x?)
domain logons = yes
domain master = yes
preferred master = yes
security = share
os level = ? #not sure if this will cause a problem if less than 32 or
so

?

At what point does this error message come - before or after it searches
the domain for a duplicate machine account? If it occurs after it
searches the domain for another machine with the same name, you may want
to delete the machine account from /etc/passwd and /etc/samba/smbpasswd
(or whatever backend you are using... smbpasswd -m -x MACHINE_NAME)

Craig

Craig