i would like to thank first the people tha been trying to help,..but unfortunetely i haven't seem to get this working... let me explain this again,...I want to join a win2k DC to samba...i first added the computer account on the win2k server .. second i stared the smb daemons,..which seems fine,..now when i run smbpasswd -j digicon (domain) -r digicon (netbios name) i run into problems..... now so you know when i go to properties of my computer and click on network identification tab to find out my netbios name....this is where i run into problems... my FQDN is digicon.digitalconsciousness.com domain --> digitalconsciousness.com so -j would be digicon (domain) right?? and -r digcon also...or digitalconsciouness.com please help with this ,..im loosing whats left of my mind... ____________________________________________ An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it! --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.231 / Virus Database: 112 - Release Date: 2/12/2001
The microsoft domain name has nothing to do with the DNS domain. Use nmblookup -A <dns name of win2k machine> This will return a list of names this machine has registered (alternately you could run the command nbtstat -n on the win2k machine) The <1B> Group name is registered by the domain master browser (which in NT land is also the domain controller). That is the microsoft domain name. The <20> Unique name is the netbios name of the machine. So.... the <1B> Group name is used for the -j and the <20> Unique name is used for the -r option. mjs wrote:> > i would like to thank first the people tha been trying to help,..but > unfortunetely i haven't seem to get this working... > > let me explain this again,...I want to join a win2k DC to samba...i first > added the computer account on the win2k server .. > > second i stared the smb daemons,..which seems fine,..now when i run > > smbpasswd -j digicon (domain) -r digicon (netbios name) > > i run into problems..... > > now so you know when i go to properties of my computer and click on network > identification tab to find out my netbios name....this is where i run into > problems... > > my FQDN is digicon.digitalconsciousness.com > domain --> digitalconsciousness.com > > so -j would be digicon (domain) right?? > and -r digcon also...or digitalconsciouness.com > > please help with this ,..im loosing whats left of my mind... > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba