[Samba] Re: XP Can't Join Domain

[Paul Gienger]

>>>I found the problem! It turned out to be an ldap problem after all. I had
>>>added the machine account to ou=Computers as detailed in most of the
>>>Samba/LDAP documentation. However, Samba was looking for the machine
>>>      
>>>
>account
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>>>in ou=People.
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>>>
>>This is actually a well known (to people that read this list for more
>>than a couple weeks) bug in the design of samba.  I could swear I got it
>>working once on a linux box without reconfiguring pam_nss, but I could
>>be wrong.
>>    
>>
>
>This error has been corrected on one of later release, say 3.0.6, am I
>right?
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>
Pretty sure not or I'm guessing there would have been a big note 
someplace in the changelog or release notes since this is a pretty major 
issue for a lot of people.

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