[Samba] machine add error to samba PDC

[Guido Lorenzutti]

I don't fully understand your problem.
You can't add the machine to the domain?
Do you have a add machine script in the smb.conf? If not, do you add the 
machine manually? If so, what to the pdbedit -Lv machine_name$ tells you?




Pavan wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
>     I have setup my samba as a PDC and testparm gives me the right
> result, but when I am trying to add my XP client to SAMBA I receive an
> error as "Logon failure: bad username or password" or "Username could
> not be found". I am using root as the domain administrator and have
> added root account using smbpasswd and can see it using pdbedit -Lv. I
> can logon successfully from my windows client from run and typing
> "\\servername <file:///\\servername> ".
>  
> Why do it complain when I am adding the machine that It cannot find the
> user??? Backend is simple smbpasswd file.
>  
> Anyhelp is greatly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks,
> Pavan.
>