[Samba] samba3 to samba3 domain membership failing

[Anthony Messina]

ahall at madasafish.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm attempting to make a Samba 3.0.10 fileserver become a domain member of a
> Samba 3.0.7 server which is running as a PDC.
> 
> I'm using the instructions gained from here...
> 
> http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/domain-member.html#id2538809
> 
> ...but when running the command...
> 
> net rpc join -S PDCNAME -UAdministrator%password
> 
> I get the error...
> 
> Create of workstation account failed
> Unable to join domain PDCNAME.
> 
> (of course PDCNAME has been substituted with the NetBIOS name of the Samba PDC)
> 
> Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? I would attempt to create the machine
> account on the PDC manually, but the Samba 3.0.10 server is a fileserver which
> doesn't actually have a NetBIOS name.
> 
> Thanks very much, Andrew Hall.

what do you mean, "doesn't actually have a netbios name"?  you specify 
one in your smb.conf file of the 3.0.10 server.  that name is then used 
to generate an account for netbios_name$ on the 3.0.7 pdc.