I am trying to get a Samba PDC and a Samba member server to work together. I can't. The documentation describes how to make a Samba PDC work. I got that working. My Win2k desktop can join just fine. The documentation describes how to make a Samba server be a member of an NT domain. It does not tell how to make Samba trust Samba. That's my problem. I have the PDC setup to automatically create the machine trust accounts (using "add user script"). It creates them just fine, at least for my Win2k desktops. It seems to do it for the Samba member, too as I get a positive result: % smbpasswd -j mtlaurel -r mtlpdc -U root Password: Joined domain MTLAUREL. However, when I go to the desktop and try to browse the member server, I get a login/passwd prompt and I supply answers and the login fails. Looking at the log (level 10) on the member server I see: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [2001/12/27 14:29:58, 0] rpc_client/cli_netlogon.c:cli_net_auth2(160) cli_net_auth2: Error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED [2001/12/27 14:29:58, 0] rpc_client/cli_login.c:cli_nt_setup_creds(72) cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed [2001/12/27 14:29:58, 0] smbd/password.c:connect_to_domain_password_server(1372) connect_to_domain_password_server: unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine MTLPDC. Error was : NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. [2001/12/27 14:29:58, 0] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1591) domain_client_validate: Domain password server not available. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The how-to docs imply that a Samba member must have the trust accounts created ahead of time on the (NT) PDC. They also say that the (Samba) PDC mechanism for the equivalent is "smbpasswd -a -m member". So, I tried that. I turned off the "add user script" on the PDC and cleaned up smbpasswd there and then issued an "smbpasswd -a -m member" there before joining. This failed on the join: % smbpasswd -j mtlaurel -r mtlpdc -U root Password: Unable to join domain MTLAUREL. Is there some document for how to use Samba with Samba? Or is this impossible? Do I really need to run a Winblows PDC? I am running Samba 2.2.2 on Solaris 2.6. Here's the sm.conf files: --- PDC ------------------------------------------------------------------- [global] workgroup = MTLAUREL netbios name = MTLPDC server string = MTLPDC [MtLaurel PDC on Dil] encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = Yes passwd program = /bin/passwd -r nis %u passwd chat = *password* %n\n *password* %n\n *changed* passwd chat debug = Yes unix password sync = Yes log level = 0 domain admin group = @it add user script = /etc/samba/add-machine %u logon path = \\%L\%U\.profile-nt\%m logon drive = h: logon home = \\%L\%U\.profile-9x\%m domain logons = Yes os level = 65 preferred master = True domain master = True wins support = yes utmp = Yes --- Member ---------------------------------------------------------------- [global] workgroup = MTLAUREL netbios name = PRINT server string = PRINT [Print Server on Chuckie] security = domain encrypt passwords = yes password server = mtlpdc log level = 0 preferred master = False local master = No domain master = False utmp = Yes guest account = ftp printer admin = @it wins server = mtlpdc Please help. If I can't get this to work, I will need to admit to my management that Windoze is superior and I will need to run an M$ Windows server. I am a long time unix bigot^H^H^H^H^H^H advocate and I want to stay that way. -- Gary Algier, WB2FWZ gaa@@ulticom.com +1 856 787 2758 Ulticom Inc., 1020 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Fax:+1 856 866 2033 A self-addressed envelope would be addressed "envelope."