[Samba] Issue Joining Win7 to Samba Domain (tried wiki instructions)

[Moray Henderson]

Ryan Casey wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to join a Windows 7 client to a samba domain.  We're
>running samba 3.3.9 from SerNet.  I've changed the registry settings
>on the Win7 client per the wiki page
>(http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7).
>
>Unfortunately, I'm still getting:
>The following error occurred attempting to join the domain because the
>following error has occurred: The specified domain either does not
>exist or could not be contacted.
>
>Before I found the wiki page, I tried some other settings from blogs,
>etc.  I think I have reverted the machine back to its default
>settings.
>
>Also, I am able to join two other Win7 clients to the domain.
>
>Any idea what could be wrong with the one client?  The machine can
>browse to file shares on the samba server.
>
>I don't see any error messages in the samba logs.
>
>Thanks,
>-Ryan Casey

Last time I saw something like this, it was because the client (Win XP)
did not have a WINS server set, and couldn’t find the domain.  Can you
ping the server from the problem client - by IP address and by name?  Is
its firewall blocking any SMB ports?



Moray.
"To err is human.  To purr, feline"