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2006 Jan 28
3
samba3 to samba3 domain membership failing
Hi,
I'm attempting to make a Samba 3.0.10 fileserver become a domain member of a
Samba 3.0.7 server which is running as a PDC.
I'm using the instructions gained from here...
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/domain-member.html#id2538809
...but when running the command...
net rpc join -S PDCNAME -UAdministrator%password
I get the error...
Create of workstation account failed
Unable to join domain PDCNAME.
(of course PDCNAME has been substituted with the NetBIOS name of the Samba PDC)
Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? I wo...
2006 Jan 19
3
Must you "net join" for the Samba machine to become a domain member?
...setup a Samba server as a domain member, allowing Windows PC to map unix server directories, but having the authentication performed by our Windows Domain Controller(s). I'm basically following this example from the Samba docs: http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/domain-member.html#id2538809
It appears to me that I must "net join" the domain from the Samba server for this to work. Is this correct? Are there alternatives? My problem is that this "net use" command requires some manual intervention (entering a password for a domain user) that we'd rather avoid. W...