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

[Andres Tarallo]

2011/3/24 John Drescher <drescherjm at gmail.com>:
> 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...
>

In the first attempt to create the machine account the machine is
created in LDAP. In the next attempt we see the script exitng with
error level 9 (user exists) but we can't join it to the domain.

Any ideas appreciated.

Andrés