[Samba] Trouble adding machine accounts

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:19 PM, jeff sacksteder <jsacksteder at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not able to add machine account(specifically Samba member servers)
> to my Samba 3.0 Domain. When I try to run 'net rpc join' and provide
> the root credentials, I get 'NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER' in the output. My
> domain database is in LDAP and root is a local unix user. I know auth
> works, because 'net rpc info' works. It seems there's a problem
> mapping between the domain admin SID and the root user. I tried the
> instructions on this page -
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/rights.html#id2609879
> and while they produce no errors, they don't resolve the problem.
>
> I've been fighting with this for some time and it's likely I have made
> some sort of error in the directory or the associated files. I'm not
> sure how to go about troubleshooting this next, though - where to
> begin?
>
Are you using nscd?

If so consult this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.unix.samba/browse_thread/thread/2af49f5afbefc828/fa21ad9d11f65c33?#fa21ad9d11f65c33

John