rpcclient/samlogon in Samba 3.0alpha9

[Vijay Kota]

Hi,
 
I am seeing a strange problem with samba 3.0 alpha9. I joined my Linux
box to a Win2K realm. After this, I used rpcclient to do a samlogon. The
samlogon was successful but after this, the "servicePrincipalName"
attribute for the samba-server in the Active Directory was gone. Here's
what I tried:
 
       net ads join -U administrator
       ldapsearch -Y gssapi -X u:administrator samaccountname=SAMBA3$
serviceprincipalname
       ---- output was HOST/samba3
       rpcclient testpdc -U administrator (and then "samlogon foo bar"
at the rpcclient prompt)
       ldapsearch -Y gssapi -X u:administrator samaccountname=SAMBA3$
serviceprincipalname
       ---- no output
 
Any ideas as to why this doesn't work?
 
Regards,
Vijay
 
==============   My smb.conf  file ==============
 
[globals]
  netbios name = SAMBA3
  server string = Running samba 3.0-alpha9
  workgroup = TESTDOM
  security = domain
  realm = REALM.COM
  ads server = testpdc
  interfaces = 10.1.1.135 127.0.0.1
  debuglevel = 10
  encrypt passwords = yes
  password server = testpdc
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