Hi list, Would anyone please help me troubleshoot the following? [root@myserver ~]# service smb status smbd is stopped nmbd is stopped [root@myserver ~]# net rpc join -S MYPDC Password: Creation of workstation account failed User specified does not have administrator privileges Unable to join domain MYDOMAIN. [root@myserver ~]# I'm not sure why this would happen if my user specified (root by default, yes?) has admin privileges. Thanks, bit
Bit Byte wrote:> Hi list, > > Would anyone please help me troubleshoot the following? > > [root@myserver ~]# service smb status > smbd is stopped > nmbd is stopped > [root@myserver ~]# net rpc join -S MYPDC > Password: > Creation of workstation account failed > User specified does not have administrator privileges > Unable to join domain MYDOMAIN. > [root@myserver ~]# > > I'm not sure why this would happen if my user specified (root by default, > yes?) has admin privileges.You need to specify a domain-user that has administrative privileges in the domain/on the PDC, e.g. (assuming it is a windows DC): net rpc join -U MYDOMAIN\\administrator Cheers - Michael -- Michael Adam <ma@sernet.de> <obnox@samba.org> SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 G?ttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG G?ttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.SerNet.DE, mailto: Info @ SerNet.DE -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 206 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20080716/50b82047/attachment.bin
add -U root%password Bit Byte wrote:> Hi list, > > Would anyone please help me troubleshoot the following? > > [root@myserver ~]# service smb status > smbd is stopped > nmbd is stopped > [root@myserver ~]# net rpc join -S MYPDC > Password: > Creation of workstation account failed > User specified does not have administrator privileges > Unable to join domain MYDOMAIN. > [root@myserver ~]# > > I'm not sure why this would happen if my user specified (root by default, > yes?) has admin privileges. > > Thanks, > bit >
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