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...e. The Samba machine is running Debian Sarge and Samba 3.0.14a-Debian. The passdb-backend is OpenLDAP, but I don't think this is relevant; I have tried with tdbsam as well, and had exactly the same results. I have been mainly following this guide: http://www.nomis52.net/?section=docs&page=samldap The PDC appears to be working; testparm doesn't complain, and says: Server role: ROLE_DOMAIN_PDC I have defined Samba 3 Group Mappings using phpldapadmin for admins, groups and guests. These are mapped to the well-known RIDs for the respective Domain * Windows groups. # getent group...

Hi all, I have followed the instructions at http://samba.mirror.ac.uk/samba/docs/man/passdb.html in an attempt to set up a Samba v3.0.2 (supplied by Redhat as part of RHEL v3.0) PDC. I have got as far as trying to get a windows 2k box to join this new domain that I have created, however this fails with the error "Logon failure: unknown user name or password". Samba itself logs

...e those accounts during the first join attempt. For now, I'm just sticking with the manual addition. There appears to be no easy way to get samba to do it automatically. You can find instructions on how this can be done here http://www.nomis52.net/?section=docs&page=samldap but configuration is complex and I was unable to get the tools to work properly. That's annoying! This should be a built-in feature of Samba! =============================================================================== And that's it. Wasn't that easy! You know, I love the p...