samba - Apr 2008 - interdomain trust between two samba pdc's

I have been trying off and on for some time now to get an interdomain trust
relationship going between two samba pdc machines (DomainA=trusted &
DomainB=trusting).  Both pdc's are running on Solaris boxes and NIS is
involved (I doubt there is a NIS complication just because I can use
accounts on DomainA on DomainB's samba, as long as I add them using
smbpasswd manually).

The situation is this.  DomainA hosts most user accounts for my two
networks.  Therefore DomainA should be trusted and DomainB should be
trusting.  The documentation is confusing and does not describe this exact
scenario (talks about samba with microsoft pdc's).  I have tried every
combination I can think of, but things still aren't working as they should.

I have added an account for DomainB on DomainA.  I then type "smbpasswd -a
-i DomainB", still working on DomainA.  This seems to go through okay.
However, when I type "net rpc trustdom list" on DomainA, I get the
following:

Trusted domains list:
none

Trusting domains list:
Unable to find a suitable server
domain controller is not responding
DomainB

I expect what I see for trusted, but for trusting, should I really be seeing
those errors?  What do they mean?  Is the fact that DomainB is listed mean
that it worked and I should ignore the errors?

I guess I'll stop here and make sure there is not a problem with this step
before I post further information about this process.

Thanks.

So is no one here doing interdomain trusts using two Samba PDC's on two
different subnets?  I have been struggling with this problem for a long time
now, and would like some help with it.  Thanks!


On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:54 PM, SoUnD WrEcK <soundwreck@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying off and on for some time now to get an interdomain
> trust relationship going between two samba pdc machines (DomainA=trusted
&
> DomainB=trusting).  Both pdc's are running on Solaris boxes and NIS is
> involved (I doubt there is a NIS complication just because I can use
> accounts on DomainA on DomainB's samba, as long as I add them using
> smbpasswd manually).
>
> The situation is this.  DomainA hosts most user accounts for my two
> networks.  Therefore DomainA should be trusted and DomainB should be
> trusting.  The documentation is confusing and does not describe this exact
> scenario (talks about samba with microsoft pdc's).  I have tried every
> combination I can think of, but things still aren't working as they
should.
>
> I have added an account for DomainB on DomainA.  I then type
"smbpasswd -a
> -i DomainB", still working on DomainA.  This seems to go through okay.
> However, when I type "net rpc trustdom list" on DomainA, I get
the
> following:
>
> Trusted domains list:
> none
>
> Trusting domains list:
> Unable to find a suitable server
> domain controller is not responding
> DomainB
>
> I expect what I see for trusted, but for trusting, should I really be
> seeing those errors?  What do they mean?  Is the fact that DomainB is
listed
> mean that it worked and I should ignore the errors?
>
> I guess I'll stop here and make sure there is not a problem with this
step
> before I post further information about this process.
>
> Thanks.
>