samba - Dec 2009 - how to get a qemu Windows XP guest to connect to a Samba domain

I'm running Debian/Squeeze on my desktop and have installed a qemu 
virtual machine (actually the qemu-kvm fork) with a tap interface to the 
network. The guest operating system is Windows XP. It can see my Samba 
shares and connect to them but I can't get the virtual machine to join 
the Samba domain (Debian/Lenny server).

Because of this, I also can't log on using a domain user account - just 
local accounts - which means that I have to manually reconnect to a 
share (to establish my credentials) in order to get access to the 
network resources.

I note that the samba shares I connect to shows that I am connecting to 
the server string from smb.conf. Interestingly, Windows XP thinks its ip 
address is 10.0.2.15 with a default gateway of 10.0.2.2 while my network 
uses 192.168.1.x. I surmise that tap uses some form of NAT to handle to 
the routing. However, this pushing the limits of my networking expertise.

Any ideas on how to get a virtual machine to join a domain?

p.s. Merry Christmas everyone.

what error messages do you get?  anything in samba's log file?  did you 
create a machine account with the computername$ of the XP computer?  are 
you using either/or root and root's password, or a user in the Domain 
Admin's group?  If using root, did you do smbpasswd -a root?

Gary Dale wrote:
> I'm running Debian/Squeeze on my desktop and have installed a qemu 
> virtual machine (actually the qemu-kvm fork) with a tap interface to 
> the network. The guest operating system is Windows XP. It can see my 
> Samba shares and connect to them but I can't get the virtual machine 
> to join the Samba domain (Debian/Lenny server).
>
> Because of this, I also can't log on using a domain user account - 
> just local accounts - which means that I have to manually reconnect to 
> a share (to establish my credentials) in order to get access to the 
> network resources.
>
> I note that the samba shares I connect to shows that I am connecting 
> to the server string from smb.conf. Interestingly, Windows XP thinks 
> its ip address is 10.0.2.15 with a default gateway of 10.0.2.2 while 
> my network uses 192.168.1.x. I surmise that tap uses some form of NAT 
> to handle to the routing. However, this pushing the limits of my 
> networking expertise.
>
> Any ideas on how to get a virtual machine to join a domain?
>
> p.s. Merry Christmas everyone.