[Samba] ldap and computer accounts

[John Drescher]

On 8/21/07, Markus Baertschi <markus at markus.org> wrote:
> I'm attemtping to configure a Ubuntu server for a bunch of windows clients.
> I'd like the authentication information to be in ldap.So far the stuff
> works,
> I can authenticate users in LDAP just fine.
>
> But when I want a windows machine to join the domain I get the
> error 'The user name could not be found'. The computer account
> gets created (via smbldap-tools) and I can see it in the ldap.
> The samba log shows what's happening, when id can not find
> the account it creates it and fails when it can not find the freshly
> created account. Unfortunately the log is net very helpful to point
> find out what is wrong:
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See this thread:

http://www.nabble.com/-SOLVED--Samba-and-LDAP%3A-Trouble-adding-Win-XP-machines-to-the-domain-tf3981091.html#a11305970

John