[Samba] Windows machines won't join Samba Domain...

[Matthew Easton]

On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Paul Matthews wrote:

> Although i'm sure after googleing for a few days now you've already  
> found
> out that you have to make a machine account ending in '$' for any  
> machine
> your going to add to your domain and then run the command smbpasswd -m
> machinename$


Is it still case that one must map the administrator account in
/etc/smaba/smbusers?


////////basic /etc/samba/smbusers file//////////

      # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
      root = administrator admin
      nobody = guest pcguest smbguest

////////////////////////////////////////////////

If you are trying to join the domain and SAMBA isn't mapping root to  
administrator, you can maybe have the error you are seeing.

Actually another issue would be if you are trying to log into the  
domain with a mapped account over wireless.  WinXP (and maybe earlier  
windows) doesn't init the wireless network until after login -- not a  
problem if the computer has already joined the domain and the user is  
not mapped to a unix account.  But IS a problem with mapped accounts  
because XP doesn't know user "administrator"=unix-user-"root" and  
can't refer to its cached logins.

Hope that was clear.