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

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Chris Weiss <cweiss at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

What I was getting at is when that fails if you manually create the
machine account and then adding the workstation to the domain works
you will know where the problem is...


John