[Samba] samba with ldap PDC cannot join my windows to domain?

Alberto Moreno portsbsd at gmail.com
Wed Aug 12 00:43:13 MDT 2009


On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Deyan Stoykov<dstoykov at ru.acad.bg> wrote:
> Alberto Moreno wrote:
>>   Hi people.
>>
>>   I have been working with samba+ldap = PDC in my test netwwork. I had
>> follow the good tutorial: Samba By Example, chapter 5, I had done all
>> the test the book say and no issues.
>>
>>   I have 2 issues:
>>
>> 1; I cannot see my domain at my windows browser.
>> 2; I cannot add my windows xp pro to my domain.
>>
>>   I have been trying to see if I could find the solution but nothing
>> yet, there is the reason I send this email.
>>
>>   My server is Centos 5.3 latest one all the packages are the current
>> from centos.
>>
>>   Ldap looks that is working, because all my test from the book pass,
>> and the same with samba.
>>
>>   Went I try to add one Winbox to the domain I receive this:
>>
>>   "The following error occurred attempting to join the domain "MyDomain"
>>   "The network path as not found"
>>
>>   My smb.conf is this:
>>
>>  ...
>>
>>    wins support = Yes
>
> The clients will try to locate a DC for your domain via wins and broadcast.
> If neither of these works, it will fail.
>
> Seems like you configured the samba box to be a WINS server. Did you add
>  its IP address under WINS in the TCP/IP settings on the client machines?
>
> --
> Deyan Stoykov, dstoykov at ru.acad.bg
> University of Rousse, BG-7017
>

  Yes, I setup my DHCP server to give the WINS IP.

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