[Samba] Not able to join domain

[Eric Hines]

At 04/06/06 09:09, Bruno Guerreiro wrote:
>Hi.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: samba-bounces+bruno.guerreiro=ine.pt at lists.samba.org
> > [mailto:samba-bounces+bruno.guerreiro=ine.pt at lists.samba.org]
> > On Behalf Of Eric Hines
> > Sent: quinta-feira, 6 de Abril de 2006 14:34
> > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > Subject: RE: [Samba] Not able to join domain
> >
> > It might help, also, to set the samba machine explicitly to be the
> > PDC: <net rpc <set-to-PDC>>.  I've forgotten the exact
> > switch, but you can do a man on net and look in the rpc section.
>
>Never heard of this one.
>Always thought that this was defined only via smb.conf.
>I also was unable to find any entry im smb.conf

 From my SuSE 10.0 man page on net, in the rpc section:

         [RPC|ADS] JOIN [TYPE]   [-U username[%password]] [options]

An instruction to join a domain as PDC, then, would be <net rpc join 
PDC>.  The username can be supplied on the same command line (I don't 
recommend adding the password, also, at this point--maybe I'm just 
excessively paranoid), and you'll be prompted for the password, or 
you can omit the username, also, and you'll be prompted for both the 
user and the password.

You can set Domain master via smb.conf, but that's not the same thing 
as setting PDC.

Eric Hines


>Best Regards,
>Bruno Guerreiro
>
> > Eric Hines

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