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...a and tried to join the domain and VOILA! Just thought I'd let the community know so that when people in my previous position search Google for this subject they'll find this answer. As of this e-mail, I'm using Samba 3.0.7, OpenLDAP 2.1.29, and Smbldap-tools 0.8.5. -- Tony Fugere tony_fugere@ncsu.edu I wrote: I'm using Samba 3.0.3 on Fedora Core 2 with OpenLDAP 2.1.29 for a backend. I'm getting to typical "The user name could not be found." error upon trying to join a Windows box. I've gone through every digest on lists.samba.org and other sites and nothing h...

...e domain through a Windows XP machine and got this error when using root user: The following error occurred when attempting to join the domain "testdomain": The user name could not be found. 13. Tried to navigate to the domain via my network places and was successful. -- Tony Fugere tony_fugere@ncsu.edu

I'm pretty sure that we have our problems solved by using %m, but I will triple check and post results in a few hours. I don't really want to mislead anyone into having a six month struggle as I have had with this. Tony John H Terpstra wrote: Tony, I do not have any proof to contradict your information, however, the source code suggests that this advice is perhaps suspect. The

After further review, I don't believe this is the proper approach to the problem. It seems to me that the %u is being used ambiguously. The logic of how the published API of the variables and the call to the smbldap-useradd program makes it important for the documenters to understand what the tools are doing... not what is happening in samba. We can see what is happening with the tools by