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...that I had to create a root account with smbpasswd on the Samba PDC. Without it, I was stuck with the following error: > smbpasswd -j WHATEVER -r WHOCARES -Uname%password error setting trust account password: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED Unable to join domain WHATEVER I'd rather prefer to use my domain_adm account for this kind of tasks but it's obviously lacking sufficient rights (whether on directories and/or files, I don't know). The domain_adm account is obviously mentioned in the domain admin group parameter of smb.conf and the machine account was added to the smbpasswd of WHOCARES befor...