was "Smbpasswd() fails to join NT Domain" Hi I have been working on this for a while now and need a little more assistance. I am having trouble getting a samba machine to join a NT domain. I cannot seem get past test #3 in the DIAGNOSIS.txt file. Red Hat 7.2 Samba-2.2.2-20011013 - (Have also tried from CVS source, source tarball and lower version binaries) PDC = NT 4.0 SP6a Test #1 passes testparm smb.conf Test #2 can ping REDHAT from PDC and can ping PDC from REDHAT (ip and (host via hosts file)) Test #3 follows; ----------------------- [root@redhat samba]# smbclient -L PDC added interface ip=10.0.18.231 bcast=10.0.18.255 nmask=255.255.255.0 session request to PDC failed (Called name not present) session request to *SMBSERVER failed (Called name not present) [root@redhat samba]# ------------------------------ When trying to join the domain I signed in as root and I made sure there was no machine named REDHAT on the PDC in server manager. I shut down the smbd, nmbd and winbind daemons I deleted /etc/samba/secrets.tbf Then issued the command; smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC -Dusername%password where; -DOMAIN is our NT domain name -PDC is the Primary Domain Controller -username and password is an administrator account on the DOMAIN [root@redhat samba]# smbpasswd -j DOMAIN -r PDC -Uusername%password error connecting to PDC Unable to join domain DOMAIN. [root@redhat samba]# -------------------------- here is my smb.conf file -------------------------- [GLOBAL] workgroup = DOMAIN netbios name = REDHAT comment = Samba server (v%V) security = domain password server = PDC encrypt passwords = yes null passwords = no hosts allow = 127. 10.0. os level = 33 domain master = no local master = no preferred master = no nt acl support = yes nt pipe support = yes socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 wins server = 10.0.18.5 name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m [homes] comment = "home directories" path = /samba/home/%S writeable = yes [public] comment = "Public" path = /samba/public browseable = yes writeable = yes ----------------------