[Samba] Can not add a new NT Workstation to a new (vampired) samba domain

[Stephen Vermeulen]

Stephen Vermeulen wrote:
> I am replacing an old NT4.0 Server with a debian 4.0R1 etch Linux 
> server (samba 3.0.24).
>
> This was with a completely fresh install of debian.
>
> My smb.conf is pretty simple:
>
> [global]
>     workgroup = BUTLER
>     netbios name = STAR3
>     passdb backend = tdbsam
>     domain master = No
>     domain logons = Yes
>     os level = 33
>     add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m '%u'
>     delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel -r '%u'
>     add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd '%g'
>     delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel '%g'
>     add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G '%g' '%u'
>     add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false -d /dev/null 
> '%u'
> #     wins server = [IP of wins server]
>
> [files]
>        comment = SAMBA File Server
>        path = /home/files
>        read only = No
>
> In addition I have the following smbusers file:
>
> star3:/etc/samba# cat smbusers
> root = Administrator
>
>
> testparm tells me this setup will give me a BDC.
>
> I first added the samba server (star3) to the old NT4 PDC using the 
> server manager tool
> and then did a:
>
> net rpc join -S nova -UAdministrator%password
>
> This worked and I was able to access the machine from the PDC.
>
> I then did a vampire:
>
> net rpc vampire -S nova -W BUTLER -UAdministrator%password
>
> and this worked for most of the user accounts and machine accounts 
> (there were some that
> had errors, but these were mostly for old users or machines that were 
> long since gone), these
> errors look like:
What would be the best way (apart from reinstalling Linux) to clean up 
the system
between tests of this?  Deleting all the *.tdb files? What about the 
unix accounts
that the vampire produces?  What about the unix groups it creates?

Thanks,

Stephen