[Samba] Can't join Windows 7 Pro/XP to samba PDC

[Chris Weiss]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:40 AM, John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Andres Tarallo <atarallo at acm.org> wrote:
>> 2011/3/23 Gaiseric Vandal <gaiseric.vandal at gmail.com>:
>>> Did you try manually creating a unix "user" account for the samba machine?
>>>  Does "getent passwd" show that machine?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I've created a user account with smbldap-passwd. We can login
>> through ssh and from console.
>>
>
> Did you create the a account for the machine you are trying to add?
>
> John

"add machine script" is in the conf, so manual creation should not be needed.

better question is: does the machine account actually get created in
the right place?