[Samba] Standalone PDC XP-Win7 clients can't join domain.

[John Drescher]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Adrian Levi <adrian.levi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1 March 2010 00:23, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Did you set the registry keys in windows7 as suggested in the wiki?
>>
>> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
>
> I have done all these modifications listed in the wiki.
> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Windows7
>
> Problem exists in Win Vista as well, except it doesn't complain about
> the failed machine trust account. I just can't do anything that would
> normally require a local administrator password.
>
> From what I can tell the server:-
> * Lists itself as a PDC
> * Lists itself as a LMB
> * No ADMIN$ IPC share listed (Is this normal?)
> I am unsure as how to check the Admin domain accounts on the server.
> 2 user accounts (for now) asc1 asc2
> on computers ascoffice1.lefty (172.16.32.8) and ascoffice2.lefty (172.16.32.9)
> server is earth.lefty (172.16.32.2)
> DHCP, BIND set up correctly (AFAICT) i can ping host names from earth
> and ascoffice1
> WINS is also set up.
>
> earth:~# nmblookup -M asc
> querying asc on 172.16.32.255
> 172.16.32.2 asc<1d>
> earth:~#
>
> earth:~# smbclient -L earth -U asc1
> Enter asc1's password:
> Domain=[ASC] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.3]
>
>        Sharename       Type      Comment
>        ---------       ----      -------
>        srv_share       Disk      Server Share
>        srv_bkup        Disk      Server Backups Share
>        srv_snapshot    Disk      Server Snapshots Share
>        netlogon        Disk      Network Logon Service
>        print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
>        IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (asc1 session user asc1
> group earth clienthost)
>        asc1            Disk      Home Directories
> Domain=[ASC] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.3]
>
>        Server               Comment
>        ---------            -------
>        EARTH                 session user %G group nmbd clienthost
>
>        Workgroup            Master
>        ---------            -------
>        ASC                  EARTH
>        WORKGROUP            GEMINI
> earth:~#
>
>
> I have been trying to work through this over the last month with no
> success, we move office next week and I need this system going by
> then.
> Any hints however small I am grateful for, Something that might be
> obvious to a seasoned user might be what is tripping me up.
>

Have you rebooted the PDC after updating samba? Are there any BDCs on
the network?

John