[Samba] how to get a qemu Windows XP guest to connect to a Samba domain
Adam
squeezer99 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 06:34:49 MST 2009
what error messages do you get? anything in samba's log file? did you
create a machine account with the computername$ of the XP computer? are
you using either/or root and root's password, or a user in the Domain
Admin's group? If using root, did you do smbpasswd -a root?
Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm running Debian/Squeeze on my desktop and have installed a qemu
> virtual machine (actually the qemu-kvm fork) with a tap interface to
> the network. The guest operating system is Windows XP. It can see my
> Samba shares and connect to them but I can't get the virtual machine
> to join the Samba domain (Debian/Lenny server).
>
> Because of this, I also can't log on using a domain user account -
> just local accounts - which means that I have to manually reconnect to
> a share (to establish my credentials) in order to get access to the
> network resources.
>
> I note that the samba shares I connect to shows that I am connecting
> to the server string from smb.conf. Interestingly, Windows XP thinks
> its ip address is 10.0.2.15 with a default gateway of 10.0.2.2 while
> my network uses 192.168.1.x. I surmise that tap uses some form of NAT
> to handle to the routing. However, this pushing the limits of my
> networking expertise.
>
> Any ideas on how to get a virtual machine to join a domain?
>
> p.s. Merry Christmas everyone.
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