[Samba] can't add computer to domain LDAP SAMBA

[Cleber P. de Souza]

You need to say to samba which password use to connect to your LDAP tree.
This is done with "smbpasswd -w". Have you done this?


On 9/23/06, Peter Collins Wasenda <pwasenda at rcsuganda.com> wrote:
>
> I know this may not necessarily be a samba question but am sure
> someone might have come across this problem before.
>
> i follows the
> http://en.opensuse.org/Howto_setup_SUSE_10.1_as_Samba_PDC document to
> setup my PDC
>
> everything went fine right until i tried to join a computer to the domain !
>
> It says, username or password is wrong.
>
> i googled and found out that i have to have a user with samba user and
> group id 0 in my ldap backend.
>
> i have created a root user with these specs but still to no avail.
>
> what is the correct way to create the domain admin ? i Tried putting
> the machine account first in the database. when i try join without
> password i get something like failed creating workstation account no
> rights !
>
> by the way what algorithm should i be using to encrypt passwords in
> ldap ? ssha or md5 ?
>
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