[Samba] Unable to add an xp machine to my domain

[System Administrator]

>>> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I've been going through the samba 3 by example book and have now 
> successfully replaced my NT 4 PDC with a Linux machine running samba and

> an LDAP backend.  Beautiful.
> 
> However, I've run into a slight problem.  When I try and add a new XP 
> pro machine to my domain, I get the following message:
> A domain controller for the domain TEST could not be contacted.
> 


I had the same problem.  After doing some research I found a website that
suggested changing the 
add machine script to use %m (machine name) instead of %u.

This partly fixed the problem.  LDAP was creating an computer object but
only the posix account details.  There was no sambaSAMAccount attributes.
Working through the scripts I realised sub add_samba_machine was never
called.

My mod was to add it in the Options{'w'} section of code in
smbldap-useradd

  if (!add_samba_machine ($userName,$userUidNumber)) {
    die "$0: error while adding samba machine\n";
  }




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