Unable to join DOMAIN

[Olivier Roy De Rives]

Try doing:

smbpasswd -j HOLDING -r PDC (where PDC is the name of your NT domain controller)

But before you do that, you'll need to create an account on the PDC by using the 
"Add to domain" in Server Manager.

Hope this helps...


> Hi!
> 
> I whant to join the domain 'HOLDING' with my samba
> server 'ema6'.
> According to DOMAIN_MEMBER.txt I added the 'ema6' to the
> domain with the servermanager for domains.
> o.k.
> 
> but when I execute:
> 	smbpasswd -j HOLDING
> I get:
> 	No password server list given in smb.conf - unable
> 	to join domain.
> 
> What is wrong?
> 
> 
> For info I add my smb.conf:
> ---------------------8<-----------------------------------
> ;/etc/smb.conf
> ; fuer ema6
> 
> [global]
> ;
> server string = Continuus Server
> 
> ; Einstellungen fuer Donain-Member
> ; siehe docs/textdocs/DOMAIN_MEMBER.txt
> ;
> workgroup = HOLDING
> security = domain
> encrypt passwords = yes
> smbpasswd file = /var/samba/private
> password server = HLD-BDC1 HOLDING_MDC01
> 
> ; DOS Kompatibilitaet
> ;
> dos filetimes = yes
> dos filetime resolution = yes
> 
> [homes]
> public = no
> comment = home
> read only = no
> create mode = 0750
> 
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Olivier  Roy De Rives
NT/UNIX Systems Administrator
Great-West Life & Annuity
Denver, CO
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