samba - May 2002 - Logging in to the domain

Hi again! ;)

Sorry if I'm being a pest, but I'd really like to be able to have my
samba as a PDC.

Okay, I've now joined the domain and rebooted.  Now I'd like to login to
the domain.  On the login screen, I've chosen a name which is in the
LDAP and thus should be a domain user.  I've also selected to login to
MDKGROUP (domain name); ie. I changed it from "VIRTUAL-TEICH (this
pc)".

When I click on Ok to login, Windows right away pops up an error
message:

Das System kann Sie nicht bei dieser Dom?ne anmelden, da das
Computerkonto des Systems in seiner prim?ren Dom?ne fehlt, oder das
Kennwort f?r dieses Computerkonto falsch ist.

Translation: Can't login to domain because the machine account is
missing from the primary domain or because the password for this machine
account is wrong.

Well, I've obviously missed a step.  But what?  I also wonder about the
"password is wrong" part.  I've never been asked for the machine
account
password.  Is this correct?

samba 2.2.4 on MandrakeLinux 8.2.

Thanks again,

Alexander Skwar
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Hi
> Well, I've obviously missed a step.  But what?  I also wonder about the
> "password is wrong" part.  I've never been asked for the
machine account
> password.  Is this correct?
Let me see if I could understand.
You need to create one account - trust account - to each one of your machines
(the
machine name with the suffix "$". For example: "win101$").
This accounts have a
password auto-generated for samba in the smbpasswd file and anyone password in
the
*nix system. Then, you need make anything similar to the following steps:

useradd -c "station" -d /dev/null -s /bin/false machine_name$
smbpasswd -a -m machine_name$

To remove the machine and recreate them:

smbpasswd -x machine_name$
userdel machine_name$

If you delete or try to create one without the other, this error happens.
I hope this help you.
Best regards

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