[Samba] Samba NT Domain Controller Help & Possible Walkthrough Please

Debug Account
Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:05:39 -0000

Hello everyone,

I have done my reading & research and everything I try is coming to
different errors, so I am going to beg & pray someone here can help me with
my problem. I appericiate any help in advance! I am running Samba 2.2.11 on a
RedHat Linux 7.3 Server, connected to a network of Windows 2000 & XP
Machines. I want to configure Samba to be the Domain Controller for my other
machines. Before I was getting an error on a old copy of Samba (2.2.2a i think),
then I upgraded to 2.2.11, and when I run the smbpasswd -j domainname , I get
this error:

ERROR: Must have both SECURITY = DOMAIN and ENCRYPT PASSWORDS = YES!

My Security = Users
and Encrypt Passwords = Yes

I want Samba to be the domain controller, I don't want to have samba rely on
Windows2k as the domain controller, so this is why I don't have it set
Security = Domain. If anyone can please provide me with some very helpful
information or a small working config file, please do.

Domain name = Hinata-Inn-NT
Domain Controller's PC Name: Tama-Chan-PDC
Description: Hinata Inn's Network PDC

Thank you very much,
Mike