I have read over the lists and search the web, I know this question has been asked before, but I've not been able to fix my problem so I'll ask here. I have been successful in joining the XP machine to the domain however it when I try to login to the domain windows instantly kicks up the message: "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domaincontroller is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, contact your system administrator for assistance." Unfortunately I'm that sys admin and cannot seem to get the problem fixed. Any help will be greatly appreciated. -- Michael Roark President - Nox Ordo, INC. The Gaming Center http://www.gamingcenters.net "Welcome to the promised LAN"
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 13:56, Michael Roark wrote:> I have read over the lists and search the web, I know this question has > been asked before, but I've not been able to fix my problem so I'll ask > here. > > I have been successful in joining the XP machine to the domain however it > when I try to login to the domain windows instantly kicks up the message: > > "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domaincontroller > is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not > found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, > contact your system administrator for assistance." > > Unfortunately I'm that sys admin and cannot seem to get the problem fixed. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated.are you sure that the machine account exists? is the netlogon share coorect? did you mess with the SID on the server? step through the pdc section of the howto again. oh - upgrade to 2.2.8a for some important security fixes brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
Michael, Did you add the machine account to the smbpasswd file? Mike On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 10:56, Michael Roark wrote:> I have read over the lists and search the web, I know this question has > been asked before, but I've not been able to fix my problem so I'll ask > here. > > I have been successful in joining the XP machine to the domain however it > when I try to login to the domain windows instantly kicks up the message: > > "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domaincontroller > is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not > found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, > contact your system administrator for assistance." > > Unfortunately I'm that sys admin and cannot seem to get the problem fixed. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Michael Roark > President - Nox Ordo, INC. > The Gaming Center > http://www.gamingcenters.net > "Welcome to the promised LAN" > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba-- Michael G. Noble RF Magic, Inc. Senior System Administrator 10182 Telesis Ct., 4th Floor San Diego, CA. 92121 email: mnoble@rfmagic.com voice: (858) 546-2401 x207 fax: (858) 546-2402 -- There is Sanity in my Madness!
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 14:25, Michael Roark wrote:> >> I'm not sure about the net logon. > > read the howto at samba.org > > - you have to set up a share called netlogon > > for a PDC to work... > > [netlogon] > path = /export/netlogon > read only = yes > write list = administrator, @administrators > > > Thats from my smb.conf . I neglected to mention that I have a room full of > ME machines using this setup as a PDC without troble. Its just xp that I > cannot get logged in. XP can see the shares, is joined to the domain but > will not login.did you apply the signorseal patch? brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 14:39, Michael Roark wrote:> > did you apply the signorseal patch? > >> If you are talking about the registry changes then yes.well - you're going to have to roll up your sleeves and break out the log files... you'll probably want to start at level 2 to see what is going on when the xp attempts to log in. post relevant excerpts here if you can't understand what's going on. brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
Michael, Did you apply the "RequiresSignOrSeal" registry change on the XP client? It is in the samba sources under ~/docs/Registry/WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg So in summary: Things to check: 1. In smb.conf [globals] encrypted passwords = Yes security = user 2. Make sure you have create the machine account: Logged in as root: useradd -d /dev/null -s /bin/false -m 'machine_name'\$ Note the escaped '$' - that is needed. passwd -l 'machine_name'\$ smbpasswd -a -m 'machine_name' Note no escaped '$' argument to smbpasswd. 3. Make sure you have a user account for each user: Logged in as root: useradd -M username passwd username smbpasswd -a username Note: You must make sure that 'root' has an account entry in smbpasswd also. ie: smbpasswd -a root 4. Join the domain by: a. Log onto the XP Pro client as Administrator b. Right click on 'My Computer, in Start panel c. Select Properties, select Network ID d. click on Change e. Set your domain name f. When prompted for a username and password enter 'root' and the password you give it for smbpasswd 5. When the system has rebooted you should be able to log on with a username and password set in 3. above. Do not forget to select the domain name in the logon box. Hope this helps. Cheers, John T. On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Michael Roark wrote:> I have read over the lists and search the web, I know this question has > been asked before, but I've not been able to fix my problem so I'll ask > here. > > I have been successful in joining the XP machine to the domain however it > when I try to login to the domain windows instantly kicks up the message: > > "Windows cannot connect to the domain, either because the domaincontroller > is down or otherwise unavailable, or because your computer account was not > found. Please try again later. If this message continues to appear, > contact your system administrator for assistance." > > Unfortunately I'm that sys admin and cannot seem to get the problem fixed. > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > -- > Michael Roark > President - Nox Ordo, INC. > The Gaming Center > http://www.gamingcenters.net > "Welcome to the promised LAN" > > > >-- John H Terpstra Email: jht@samba.org
On Thu, 2003-04-10 at 18:40, Michael Roark wrote:> > post relevant excerpts here if you can't understand what's going on. > >> [2003/04/10 17:42:06, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:get_single_attribute(360) > get_single_attribute: [acctFlags] = [[W ]] > [2003/04/10 17:42:17, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(461) > Closing connectionshmm that looks like the server successfully looked up the machine account. is there no more info? about he user who is trying to log in? brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>