samba - Nov 2001 - samba digest, Vol 1 #708 - 17 msgs

Okay, let's try this again.  I've gotten my samba 2.2.2 server doing
everything BUT winbind, users can print, see shares, etc.  And they're
authenticating against a real NT 4.5 SP6a server (newly generated).
When I get to the step where I need to join the domain, this is what
happens:

[root@NetServer samba]# smbpasswd -j BIO2RES -r DOMAIN-CONTROL -U Administrator
Password: 
Error connecting to DOMAIN-CONTROL
Unable to join domain BIO2RES.

I've tried this with smbd and nmbd stopped and with the server removed
from the domain in server manager on the NT machine.  Any idea what I am
doing wrong?

I am new to samba and windows networking, but a UNIX veteran.  Can I get
someone's attention long enough to push this through?  I really would
rather not have to maintain lots of different user/group/password
databases...  I need to go into production the 20th of December.

Thanks in advance,

James Ward
Biosphere 2 Center
Columbia University

From: "Ward... James Ward" <jward@bio2.edu>
> Okay, let's try this again.  I've gotten my samba 2.2.2 server
doing
> everything BUT winbind, users can print, see shares, etc.  And they're
> authenticating against a real NT 4.5 SP6a server (newly generated).
> When I get to the step where I need to join the domain, this is what
> happens:
>
> [root@NetServer samba]# smbpasswd -j BIO2RES -r DOMAIN-CONTROL -U
Administrator
> Password:
> Error connecting to DOMAIN-CONTROL
> Unable to join domain BIO2RES.
>
Perhaps you should try
[root@NetServer samba]# smbpasswd -j BIO2RES -r DOMAIN-CONTROL
> I've tried this with smbd and nmbd stopped and with the server removed
> from the domain in server manager on the NT machine.  Any idea what I am
> doing wrong?
>
Just add/readd the Samba Server to NT Domin before joining it.
> I am new to samba and windows networking, but a UNIX veteran.  Can I get
> someone's attention long enough to push this through?  I really would
The doc is DOMAIN_MEMBER.html  in _your_samba_source_dir/docs/htmldocs.
If you access via swat, the docs should be in it.
> rather not have to maintain lots of different user/group/password
> databases...  I need to go into production the 20th of December.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> James Ward
> Biosphere 2 Center
> Columbia University
>
Yaya