[TriLUG] Help with SAMBA acting as PDC for windows

[Mark Fowle]

Just curious - is the user you are trying to use to add the machine to the
domain in the smbusers file and associated with root?

- Mark

> Hello,
>
> I have a situation that is happening to one of my Windows XP workstations
> trying to connect
> to a SAMBA server acting as a Primary Domain Controller.  So to begin
> with, the server is
> a RedHat Fedora Core 3 Running SAMBA version 3.0.10-1.fc3
>
> So what is happening is when I am trying to join the machine account to
> our "WEBNET" domain,
> the error on the Windows XP workstation is " The following error occurred
> attempting to join the domain WEBNET: Access is denied
>
> Now, I am using a valid username to authenticate the machine account, and
> the machine account exists
> in the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file.  Also the machine account exists in the
> /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file.
>
> entry in /etc/passwd file:
> n-pace$:x:1105:105::Machine Account:/dev/null:/bin/false
>
> entry in /etc/shadow file:
> n-pace$:!:13011:0:99999:7:::
>
> entry in /etc/samba/smbpasswd file
> n-pace$:1105:498B3F3A1D654D56AAD3B435B51404EE:7C5D6F77A7C4A52F3F771BA178AD21D4:[W
>          ]:LCT-4342E59A:
>
> Now I do know when getting the error above it means:
> There isn't a machine account entered in smbpasswd for the computer you're
> attempting to have
> join the domain, or the machine account is currently disabled. It's also
> possible that you're
> trying to join the domain using an account name other than "root", which
> is required.
>
>
> Also, this machine was on the domain as a different machine account, but I
> removed the account from the /etc/passwd file /etc/shadow file, and
> /etc/samba/smbpasswd file.
>
> Can anybody help?
>
> Thank you very much
>
> JD Henderson
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