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...had Samba running for a long time now as a domain controller to win98 computers with no issues. I have started to modify to allow for the new XP machines we are having. I added CARTER$ (machine name) to the unix account. I added it with smbpasswd. I go to add itself to the domain (smbpasswd -j CHERRY_HILL) and I get this error: No password server list given in smb.conf - unable to join domain. Now it says password server should not point to itself in TFM. I tried lookign through the archives and didn't find anything. I am not sure what direction to go from here. Adam Lang Systems Engineer Ru...

...e: > > > > > CARTER is the name of the linux Samba server that is the PDC. > > > > > > According to my documentation, I am suppsoed to do the following. > > > > > > 1) Create the Unix account: > > > /usr/sbin/useradd -c 'Samba PDC for CHERRY_HILL' -M -s /dev/null > CARTER$ > > > > > > 2) Add a machine account > > > smbpasswd -a -m CARTER > > > > > > 3) Add it to the domain (which it is the PDC of) > > > smbpasswd -j CHERRY_HILL > > > > > > I am NOT adding an XP m...