samba - Apr 2004 - How to re-introduce a Samba server into a Win/NT domain?

Hello.
    I'm hoping that you will provide some help with a Samba problem that
I'm
experiencing.
    We have an Alphaserver that has been functioning as the Samba-server
in a  Windows/NT Domain for about 5 years now.  It was set up by an
engineer
here at Raytheon Missile Systems Company and he left the company about 2
years ago.  I've inherited the administration of it.
     Last week the Alphaserver's unix (TRU-64 V 4.0F)  boot-drive crashed
and
a replacement disk was built from a (5 day old) backup tape.  Samba did not
work after that and I'm quite sure - from the error-messages - that it's
because
the Alphaserver's NT-machine-account's password is out-of-sync with what
the PC/winNT side remembers it to be "last set to".
    I can not get Samba to run as it had been running all of these years -
i.e.:
with "security = domain" and "password server = * "
specified in the
smb.conf
file.
    I can get Samba up and running with "security = server" and
"password
server
= PDC,BDC,Alphaserver".  But the Samba-functionality ceases after a while,
even
though the Samba-daemons are still running.
    How can I remove the Alphaserver from the NT Domain and thereby delete
its
machine-account, so that I can then add it back into the Domain with a new
machine
account-name and associated machine-account-password?  (I'd like to also go
back to using "security = domain" in the smb.conf file.)
     I have read the html help files but nothing there referrences taking
an existing
Samba-server out of a Windows Domain and then adding it back in again in
order
to re-set the machine-accountname and its password.
     Any help light that you could shed on this issue would be greatly
appreciated.
                        Sincerely,
                        Bob Shaffo

What version of samba are you running? 

Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM, Lotus, Microsoft Consultants
http://www.cbsol.com
952-544-1108 
Blog: http://bingo.cbsol.com

samba-bounces+jonlists=cbsol.com@lists.samba.org wrote on 04/20/2004 
06:53:49 PM:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Hello.
>     I'm hoping that you will provide some help with a Samba problem
that
> I'm
> experiencing.
>     We have an Alphaserver that has been functioning as the Samba-server
> in a  Windows/NT Domain for about 5 years now.  It was set up by an
> engineer
> here at Raytheon Missile Systems Company and he left the company about 2
> years ago.  I've inherited the administration of it.
>      Last week the Alphaserver's unix (TRU-64 V 4.0F)  boot-drive 
crashed
> and
> a replacement disk was built from a (5 day old) backup tape.  Samba did 
not
> work after that and I'm quite sure - from the error-messages - that
it's
> because
> the Alphaserver's NT-machine-account's password is out-of-sync with
what
> the PC/winNT side remembers it to be "last set to".
>     I can not get Samba to run as it had been running all of these years 
-
> i.e.:
> with "security = domain" and "password server = * "
specified in the
> smb.conf
> file.
>     I can get Samba up and running with "security = server" and 
"password
> server
> = PDC,BDC,Alphaserver".  But the Samba-functionality ceases after a 
while,
> even
> though the Samba-daemons are still running.
>     How can I remove the Alphaserver from the NT Domain and thereby 
delete
> its
> machine-account, so that I can then add it back into the Domain with a 
new
> machine
> account-name and associated machine-account-password?  (I'd like to
also
go
> back to using "security = domain" in the smb.conf file.)
>      I have read the html help files but nothing there referrences 
taking
> an existing
> Samba-server out of a Windows Domain and then adding it back in again in
> order
> to re-set the machine-accountname and its password.
>      Any help light that you could shed on this issue would be greatly
> appreciated.
>                         Sincerely,
>                         Bob Shaffo
> 
> 
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