samba - Jan 2003 - Joining WinXp to Samba PDC

After trying to get WinXP (Pro) to try and find my domain so I can log
on I've finally done it, but now when I try and join my WinXP client to
the domain, windows asks me to enter the username and password of an
account with permission to join the domain.

Now which account would this be?? root doesn't work, neither do my other
samba users.

Do I have to create another user or something?

Thanks

Running RH8.0 and Samba 2.2.7a


Smb.conf
================================================
[global]
	workgroup = LANGHOLME
	domain logons = yes

	encrypt passwords = yes
	security = user

	os level = 99
	local master = yes
	preferred master = yes
	domain master = yes
	
[netlogon]
	# comment = 
	path = /data/samba/logon
	public = no
	writeable = no
	browseable = no

Thanks, but I'm a bit confused. Where did Administrator come from?
Is it a built in account in Samba, and whats the default password?
I've tried using Administrator with no password ( and with my root
password), but it keeps saying :

Unknown username or bad password

any other samba account I try just return :

The specified user does not exist

Any help appreciated

Roland



-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley W. Langhorst [mailto:brad@langhorst.com] 
Sent: 23 January 2003 19:32
To: roland@thompson.name
Subject: Re: [Samba] Joining WinXp to Samba PDC

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:27, Roland Thompson wrote:
> After trying to get WinXP (Pro) to try and find my domain so I can log
> on I've finally done it, but now when I try and join my WinXP client
to
> the domain, windows asks me to enter the username and password of an
> account with permission to join the domain.
> 
> Now which account would this be?? root doesn't work, neither do my
other
> samba users.
it's Administrator
(which you may want to map to root with smbusers)

brad
-- 
Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>

Ah, that?s done it.
The uid's didn't match.
All is working now.

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: jboeddeker@web.de [mailto:jboeddeker@web.de] 
Sent: 23 January 2003 22:44
To: roland@thompson.name
Subject: Re: [Samba] Joining WinXp to Samba PDC


Looks like the same problem as i had a feww moments ago.

i tried to rejoin my domain, but received the same errors
as you did.

the problem was the machine account for my workstation.

1. check if the machine account exists (<clientname>$) as
   unix user.  -> /etc/passwd
2. check if the samba machine account exists. 
   -> /etc/samba/smbpasswd
3. if both exist, check for the uid, should be the same.
4. check if another account exists, with the same id
   -> /etc/samba/smbpasswd
5. if yes, remove the duplicate id. (be sure not to remove
   a valid user!) 
   -> /etc/samba/smbpasswd
   smbpasswd -x <duplicate>
6. try again.

7. if it doesn't work remove both (unix+samba) accounts and
   recreate them with the following script:

#!/bin/bash
#script creates an machine account
#the group "machines" must exist
adduser -g machines -s /bin/false -c "NT Machine Account"
"$1\$"
smbpasswd -m -a "$1\$"

8. try again.

hope this helps,

Joachim.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roland Thompson" <roland@thompson.name>
To: "'Bradley W. Langhorst'" <brad@langhorst.com>
Cc: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:55 PM
Subject: RE: [Samba] Joining WinXp to Samba PDC

> Thanks, but I'm a bit confused. Where did Administrator come from? Is 
> it a built in account in Samba, and whats the default password? I've 
> tried using Administrator with no password ( and with my root 
> password), but it keeps saying :
> 
> Unknown username or bad password
> 
> any other samba account I try just return :
> 
> The specified user does not exist
> 
> Any help appreciated
> 
> Roland
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley W. Langhorst [mailto:brad@langhorst.com]
> Sent: 23 January 2003 19:32
> To: roland@thompson.name
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Joining WinXp to Samba PDC
> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 14:27, Roland Thompson wrote:
> > After trying to get WinXP (Pro) to try and find my domain so I can 
> > log on I've finally done it, but now when I try and join my WinXP 
> > client
> to
> > the domain, windows asks me to enter the username and password of an
> > account with permission to join the domain.
> > 
> > Now which account would this be?? root doesn't work, neither do my
> other
> > samba users.
> it's Administrator
> (which you may want to map to root with smbusers)
> 
> brad
> --
> Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
> 
> 
> --
> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the
> instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
>