Hello, i'm new to the the list so excuse me if I ask for an old problem, but i found no solution in the archive. I try to set up a rh 7.3 server with samba 2.4 as PDC for win2000 sp2 clients. I configured the samba to create the machine accounts on the fly. When I try to join the domain the entries in smbpass and passwd are created fine. After a minute I get the message that I joined the domain. After reboot I can not join the domain because there should not be a valid machine account I attached my smb.conf file, so maybe someone can help me if there is something wrong. Thanks in advance Arne # Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2001/06/05 13:50:58 # Global parameters [global] coding system = client code page = 850 code page directory = /etc/codepages workgroup = GPI netbios name = GEOLOGIE2 netbios aliases = gpiserver netbios scope = server string = Samba 2.2.4 interfaces = bind interfaces only = No security = USER encrypt passwords = Yes update encrypted = No allow trusted domains = Yes hosts equiv = min passwd length = 5 map to guest = Never null passwords = No obey pam restrictions = No password server = smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd root directory = pam password change = No passwd program = /bin/passwd passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed* passwd chat debug = No username map = password level = 0 username level = 0 unix password sync = Yes restrict anonymous = No lanman auth = Yes use rhosts = No admin log = No log level = 0 syslog = 1 syslog only = No log file = max log size = 5000 timestamp logs = Yes debug hires timestamp = No debug pid = No debug uid = No protocol = NT1 large readwrite = No max protocol = NT1 min protocol = CORE read bmpx = No read raw = Yes write raw = Yes nt smb support = Yes nt pipe support = Yes nt status support = Yes announce version = 4.5 announce as = NT max mux = 50 max xmit = 65535 name resolve order = wins bcast host lmhosts max packet = 65535 max ttl = 259200 max wins ttl = 518400 min wins ttl = 21600 time server = No unix extensions = No change notify timeout = 60 deadtime = 0 getwd cache = Yes keepalive = 300 lpq cache time = 10 max smbd processes = 0 max disk size = 0 max open files = 10000 read size = 16384 socket options = TCP_NODELAY stat cache size = 50 use mmap = Yes total print jobs = 0 load printers = Yes printcap name = /etc/printcap disable spoolss = No enumports command = addprinter command = deleteprinter command = show add printer wizard = Yes os2 driver map = strip dot = No character set = mangled stack = 50 stat cache = Yes domain admin group = root domain guest group = machine password timeout = 604800 add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u delete user script = logon script = logon path = \\%N\%U\profile logon drive = logon home = \\%N\%U domain logons = Yes os level = 65 lm announce = Auto lm interval = 60 preferred master = True local master = Yes domain master = True browse list = Yes enhanced browsing = No dns proxy = No wins proxy = No wins server = wins support = Yes wins hook = kernel oplocks = Yes lock spin count = 3 lock spin time = 10 oplock break wait time = 0 add share command = change share command = delete share command = config file = preload = lock dir = /var/cache/samba pid directory = /var/run/samba utmp directory = wtmp directory = utmp = No default service = message command = dfree command = valid chars = remote announce = remote browse sync = socket address = 0.0.0.0 homedir map = time offset = 0 NIS homedir = No source environment = panic action = hide local users = No winbind uid = winbind gid = template homedir = /home/%D/%U template shell = /bin/false winbind separator = \ winbind cache time = 15 winbind enum users = Yes winbind enum groups = Yes winbind use default domain = No comment = path = alternate permissions = No username = guest account = invalid users = valid users = admin users = read list = write list = printer admin = force user = force group = read only = Yes create mask = 0744 force create mode = 00 security mask = 0777 force security mode = 00 directory mask = 0755 force directory mode = 00 directory security mask = 0777 force directory security mode = 00 inherit permissions = No inherit acls = No guest only = No guest ok = No only user = No hosts allow = hosts deny = status = Yes nt acl support = Yes max connections = 0 min print space = 0 strict allocate = No strict sync = No sync always = No write cache size = 0 max print jobs = 1000 printable = No postscript = No printing = bsd print command = lpr -r -P%p %s lpq command = lpq -P%p lprm command = lprm -P%p %j lppause command = lpresume command = queuepause command = queueresume command = printer name = use client driver = No default devmode = No printer driver = printer driver file = /etc/samba/printers.def printer driver location = default case = lower case sensitive = No preserve case = Yes short preserve case = Yes mangle case = No mangling char = ~ hide dot files = Yes hide unreadable = No delete veto files = No veto files = hide files = veto oplock files = map system = No map hidden = No map archive = Yes mangled names = Yes mangled map = browseable = Yes blocking locks = Yes csc policy = manual fake oplocks = No locking = Yes oplocks = Yes level2 oplocks = Yes oplock contention limit = 2 posix locking = Yes strict locking = No share modes = Yes copy = include = exec = preexec close = No postexec = root preexec = root preexec close = No root postexec = available = Yes volume = fstype = NTFS set directory = No wide links = Yes follow symlinks = Yes dont descend = magic script = magic output = delete readonly = No dos filemode = No dos filetimes = No dos filetime resolution = No fake directory create times = No vfs object = vfs options = [homes] read only = No [daten] path = /daten [printers] path = /usr/spool/public printable = Yes browseable = No [netlogon] comment = netlogon path = /daten/netlogon write list = root