samba - Feb 2006 - Windows machines won't join Samba Domain...

Hello,

This is the second time I try to get samba working using a simple PDC
setup. Although very few changes have been made compared to the first
set up (which kinda worked), for some reason nothing works like
before.

I use samba 3.0.21b on Gentoo. Samba works in the sense that my domain
is visible in the network neighbourhood, and all shares can be
accessed. However, whenever I try to join the domain I get a user name
could not be found error... I have tried deleting and recreating the
root account with smbpasswd to no avail. (As far as configuration
settings are concerned, I've generally stuck to gentoo wiki's
Implement Samba as your PDC HOWTO, modifying as needed).

As far as I can tell there are no error messages in the logs, except
for the warning that the use of "The "printer admin" option is
deprecated"

I tried using security = domain, which would result in an error
message about SRV entries. I thought that some SRV entries for ldap
and kerberos in bind were to blame, which had lingered around since
the time when I was experimenting with ldap/kerberos (however the
current setup makes no use of other authentication backends. I use
"passdb backend = smbpasswd guest" at present). The aforementioned
problem persists.

After googling around a bit for several days, I have yet to find a
solution. I would be grateful if somebody came up with a way to
overcome this problem, or suggestions on how to debug it.

Thanks in advance,
George

Although i'm sure after googleing for a few days now you've already
found
out that you have to make a machine account ending in '$' for any
machine
your going to add to your domain and then run the command smbpasswd -m
machinename$

have you looked in your samba logs?

/var/log/samba/*.log

you might want post your logs up here?

> Hello,
>
> This is the second time I try to get samba working using a simple PDC
> setup. Although very few changes have been made compared to the first
> set up (which kinda worked), for some reason nothing works like
> before.
>
> I use samba 3.0.21b on Gentoo. Samba works in the sense that my domain
> is visible in the network neighbourhood, and all shares can be
> accessed. However, whenever I try to join the domain I get a user name
> could not be found error... I have tried deleting and recreating the
> root account with smbpasswd to no avail. (As far as configuration
> settings are concerned, I've generally stuck to gentoo wiki's
> Implement Samba as your PDC HOWTO, modifying as needed).
>
> As far as I can tell there are no error messages in the logs, except
> for the warning that the use of "The "printer admin" option
is
> deprecated"
>
> I tried using security = domain, which would result in an error
> message about SRV entries. I thought that some SRV entries for ldap
> and kerberos in bind were to blame, which had lingered around since
> the time when I was experimenting with ldap/kerberos (however the
> current setup makes no use of other authentication backends. I use
> "passdb backend = smbpasswd guest" at present). The
aforementioned
> problem persists.
>
> After googling around a bit for several days, I have yet to find a
> solution. I would be grateful if somebody came up with a way to
> overcome this problem, or suggestions on how to debug it.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> George
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Paul Matthews
Systems Administrator Trainee
The Cathedral School of St Anne & St James

Silly me, didn't read your entire post.  When i replied to the other  
reply.

On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:09 PM, George Diamantopoulos wrote:
>
> I tried using security = domain, which would result in an error
> message about SRV entries. I thought that some SRV entries for ldap
> and kerberos in bind were to blame, which had lingered around since
> the time when I was experimenting with ldap/kerberos (however the
> current setup makes no use of other authentication backends. I use
> "passdb backend = smbpasswd guest" at present). The
aforementioned
> problem persists.
The "domain" setting means you try to authenticate samba logons  
against another domain server -- if you have an existing NT PDC for  
example.