Hi to all, I have a samba 2.0.7 on Linux Redhat 6.2. I'm using samba as user authentication server and file server. Recently I installed some Windows 2000 clients, but I found some problem to authenticate the new client with samba. After I have configured Windows 2000 to access my domain I received a username/password request. I typed the right user and password (of a domain account) but I received a message about problem to find machine account on my domain and Windows 2000 requests to me the machine name and domain name (to find the machine account). After I have typed the machine and account name I recevived the last error.... I have an Italian version of Windows 2000 and the error message is in Italian. I'm not sure to understand the Italian error message(!!!), but anyway the traslation is: "The computer can't access to the domain due to this error: procedure number out of range". I think I have made the right configuration on my linux samba server: I have created the machine account with "smbpasswd -m -a <machine name>"command and all Windows 95/98 clients can access and authenticate without problems. Are there samba compatibility problems to authenticate (user/machine account) Windows 2000 clients? Or you have some suggestion for my samba configuration files? Thank you in advance. Lorenzo
[Lorenzo Luconi Trombacchi <lorenzo@reality.it>]> I have a samba 2.0.7 on Linux Redhat 6.2. I'm using samba as user > authentication server and file server. Recently I installed some > Windows 2000 clients, but I found some problem to authenticate the > new client with samba.This is a known problem. Samba 2.0.x is not supported as a domain controller for Windows 2000, and it won't ever be. In fact, 2.0.x is not supported as a domain controller for NT either, although lots of people report that it works, somewhat. 2.0.x *is* supported as a domain controller for a Win95/98 environment, but that is a *very* different (much simpler) thing. If you absolutely need Win2k domain controller support, you had better try Samba-TNG. Many aspects of it are known to work in version 2.5alpha (NOT 2.5.3alpha, the latest), but some things do not, such as password changes from NT. Peter