[Samba] Renamed Win2K Box No Longer Authenticates

[Jake Colman]

>>>>> "DZ" == Denis Zaitsev <zzz at anda.ru> writes:

   DZ> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:09:00PM -0500, Jake Colman wrote:
   >> 
   >> My home network uses Samba 2.2.7 as a PDC for a windows network running a mix
   >> of Win98 and Win2K machines.  The domain name is JNCHOME.
   >> 
   >> My office laptop, named MERCURY, is on the PRINCIPIA domain.  I successfully
   >> configured PRINCIPIA as a trusted network for JNCHOME so that when I connect
   >> MERCURY to the JNCHOME network I get full access to all JNCHOME services.
   >> This has been working for many months.
   >> 
   >> The office IS staff just renamed MERCURY as JCOLMAN.  Now when I connect my
   >> laptop to JNCHOME I can no longer browse JNCHOME nor get access to any of its
   >> services.  What do I do?
   >> 
   >> I did try creating a new machine account for jcolman$ and then using
   >> 'smbpasswd -a -m jcolman' to add the machine but this did not help.
   >> 
   >> So how do I get my renamed office laptop to gain access to my home network
   >> services?

   DZ> Perhaps you must (again) join to the domain from your renamed laptop.

Which domain?  Do I have to rejoin the laptop to JNCHOME?  Even though the
laptop is a PRINCIPIA laptop?  So I temporarily change the domain name to be
JNCHOME just for this execise?

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Jake Colman
Sr. Applications Developer
Principia Partners LLC
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Jersey City, NJ 07311
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