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Hi I am trying to find someone who can help me with configuring samba as a Win2k PDC, I have read various How-TO's and the online reference material but some of it has conflicting advice. I wondered if someone who has actually managed to configure and uses samba as a Win2k PDC and logon server could email me to help me with this issue. Javid Mahdavi

I found many questions but no answers on the web. I described my needs in earlier post, but now switched from security = domain to security = server, and designated the AD domain server as the password server. It works as desired, i.e. I don't need smbpasswd any more, and if windows users change their passwords by ctrl-alt-del, they can later use the new password without coming to admins.

...to open passdb database. > To: "Ben Kim" <bkim@edsun.coe.tamu.edu>, <samba@lists.samba.org> > the log says that the passwd file was not found or cant be openend ( > permission) > what passbackend do you use i e. /etc/samba/smbpasswd etc ? > check your settings in smb.conf In fact, this is the log at debug level 10 : [2003/11/05 16:29:58, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1101) password server is not connected [2003/11/05 16:29:58, 10] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1346) p...