[Samba] Samba and NetAPP filers, the PDC problem...
Frank Bonnet
f.bonnet at esiee.fr
Thu Feb 12 09:22:23 GMT 2009
Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:45:38PM +0100, Frank Bonnet wrote:
>> I run samba in full debug mode (10)
>> then I get that kind of error
>
> Ah, that one. There was some discussion on the list recently
> iirc. What you definitely have to do is precreate the
> machine account with smbpasswd -a -m XFILER
>
> The fact that NetApp filers are not able to create the
> workstation account on their own should be documented in the
> NetApp docs somewhere.
>
> Volker
Hello Volker
Well not much success even after creating the account by hand
> (1) Active Directory domain authentication (Active Directory domains only)
> (2) Windows NT 4 domain authentication (Windows NT or Active Directory domains)
> (3) Windows Workgroup authentication using the filer's local user accounts
> (4) /etc/passwd and/or NIS/LDAP authentication
>
> Selection (1-4)? [2]: 2
> What is the name of the Windows NT 4 domain? [WORKGROUP]: ESIEE-1
> CIFS - Starting SMB protocol...
> *** CIFS Setup could not establish a connection with the Primary Domain
> *** Controller (PDC). Usually this happens when the 'XFILER' account does
> *** not exist in the domain or must have it's password reset.
>
> Once you have created and/or reset the 'XFILER' machine account, press ENTER. [continue]:Thu Feb 12 10:19:17 CET [nbt.WINS.registrationFailed:error]: NBT: WINS server 10.1.1.11 did not respond when the filer attempted to register 10.1.1.10.
>
> *** CIFS Setup could not establish a connection with the Primary Domain
> *** Controller (PDC). Usually this happens when the 'XFILER' account does
> *** not exist in the domain or must have it's password reset.
>
> Once you have created and/or reset the 'XFILER' machine account, press ENTER. [continue]:
>
> CIFS local server is shutting down...
>
> CIFS local server has shut down...
> xfiler>
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