[CLUE-Tech] Samba-PDC/win2k help

[Dan Harris]

Yes, I did fix it.  The problem appeared to be that I manually added the
win2k machine accounts to the smbpasswd file and /etc/passwd.  I finally got
it to work by manually deleting the machine accounts from both files, then
letting win2k "automagically" add the accounts.  Only took me 7 hours to get
it to work.. gah..

All in all, I'd say I really like Samba as a PDC but sometimes it can be
very frustrating and the samba e-mail list seems to be big on questions and
small on answers.

-Dan

<quote who="Dave Anselmi">
> Dan Harris wrote:
>
>> Anyway.. I have been running a Samba-as PDC for my NT/w2k machines for
>> a
>> year or so now.  I recently moved my samba services to a new Red Hat
>> 7.2
>> box.  With Samba 2.2.2 I cannot get my Win2k machines to join my new
>> domain!  All the NT4 machines joined just fine.
>
> Any luck with this yet?  Your question seems to be a FAQ, but not many
> answers out there.
>
> Some thoughts.  Are you using 'encrypt passwords = Yes' in your conf?
> If not, perhaps w2k only supports encrypted passwords.  (Check the
> docs, you may have to redo your smb passwords if you change this.)
>
> Are you using 'update encrypted = Yes'?  That seems to be bad,
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba-ntdom&m=100718845320374&w=2
>
> Are you using 'root' as the user when you tell w2k to join the domain?
> The password has to be the smbpasswd for root, not necessarily the same
> as root's passwd.  I remember doing it this way though I don't remember
> the details.  Perhaps some of this will help:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba-ntdom&m=99746751615318&w=2
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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-Dan