samba - May 2002 - Cannot find Primary Domain - Please help, rather urge nt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Biggs [mailto:john@bigwidelogic.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:29 PM
> To: samba@lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] Cannot find Primary Domain - Please help, 
> rather urgent
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm getting a persistent error at login (effectively locking 
> me out) on
> two Win2k machines that were once assigned to a domain on my windows
> network (win2k server was once the PDC, just changed to Samba)
> 
> 	Cannot log you into the primary because the system's 
> computer account
> is missing or the password was incorrect.
>
Add the samba server info to:
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\lmhosts
on the Win2k PCs

and remove the old server info
> The old domain was:
> yrbmag.yellowrat.com
> 
> and I'd like every just to be in workgroup YRBMAG
> 
> My configure file follows. What am I doing wrong? Is there a 
> way to fake
> the domain so I can login and switch to the workgroup? Luckily enough,
> the previous admin here at the shop forgot the admin 
> passwords for both
> machines, rendering my job even harder. Super!
> 
One way to fix that (keeping existing account info, but
creating new admin password) is to "upgrade" your Win2k systems
to Win2k again.  You'll have to re-install all of your IE5.x,
DirectX, SP2 (unless you build a "streamlined" version of Win2k,
which would then have SP2 incorporated), etc.

If you don't care about the user accounts, just run SysPrep 1.1
and reboot;  you'll be prompted for the admin & networking info,
and everything else will be as was.  SysPrep is used to create
a machine that would act as the source PC for imaging, e.g. Ghost,
etc.  The first time it boots it prompts for info...

Jim