similar to: Samba PDC with ldap: adding machines won't work

Hi all, I'm currently working on getting the whole samba with ldap working. I'm having an error trying to join a computer to the domain, when windows goes to change to the new domain I get the dialogue box to enter the user/pass to join I do that and it returns: the following error occurred.... the username could not be found. taking a look at the smbd.log file it shows: [2005/06/16

Hi! I have a problem connecting WinXP clients to my samba3/ldap domain (see my earlier post). I'm using the idealx scripts and they do create a machine account, even if i try to add the machine from WinXP itself. Now I noticed the machine account created by this script has object classes top, inetOrgPerson and posixAccount, but NOT sambaSAMAccount. Is this correct? I thought they should be

Hi, I'm trying to configure a Linux machine with Samba 3 + OpenLDAP to be a PDC for some Windows XP machines. I'm following the Samba-3 by Example and it's been all ok except when I try to join a Windows machine to the domain. In the Samba server a get the following errors: [2004/07/24 21:34:56, 1] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_modify_entry(1312) ldapsam_modify_entry: Failed to add

hi, i'm trying to migrate my samba 2.2.8a pdc to 3.0.12 pdc. I'm using ldap and i have already migrated all the data. Also i have executed convertSambaAccount for the new schema. My problem is that I cannot set the old SID (samba 2.2.8) to the new samba 3.0.12 for that the clients can authentificate to pdc server. samba2.2.8> smbpasswd -S LDAP Successfully set domain SID to

Greetings, I am trying to join a EMC Celerra NS502 CIFS server to our Samba 3.0.21a domain controller. According to EMC, I was told that we need to manually create the machine account first. How is the best way to do this? We are using an openLDAP backend, using the idealx scripts. Joining a windows machine from the computer properties dialog of that machine works perfectly. Things I have

I am having trouble getting samba to execute the add machine script properly. It seems to be executing this script as a non-root user. I am running trustix with the 2.4.30 kernel. Samba is version 3.0.14a. Here is the output from testparm: Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[netlogon]" Processing section

Hi all! I work as a computer technician for a small school and have recently upgraded our network to use samba servers. Our main computers are a PDC, a BDC, a file server and a backup server, all using Red Hat Fedora Core 3 as a base. The clients on our network consist of machines with Windows XP and a few with Windows NT. Everything seems to work just fine except for some minor but annoying

Dear list, Whe i trying to add a machine to the domain(ldap/pdc) i get the following error: > Error: modifications require authentication at > /usr/share/perl5/smbldap_tools.pm line 891, <DATA> line 283. > [2005/08/11 16:46:54, 0] > rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c:_samr_create_user(2324) > _samr_create_user: Running the command `/usr/sbin/smbldap-useradd -w >

I'm trying to join a Windows PC to a domain. I've got a root user set-up to add machines to the domain. When prompted by windows, I enter in root and the password. But I get a windows error dialog, indicating a user was not found. However, in the samba log file for the machine I'm trying to connect to the domain, I can see that the root user was found in ldap, however, for some

Hi, I have been trying to work this out on my own now for about a week and feel like I am so close..haha. I have samba setup as a PDC and in theory authenticating users through openLDAP with the use of smbldap-tools by IDEALX. I have checked the windows registry fix, but still no luck. When I try to join the domain as root, I get the error: "Username could not be found" Any help would

Hy! Excuse for the previous mail, follows correction! I followed step by step that this in the address above. > http://www.hilinski.net/samba/ But when I execute, 'script smbldap-populate.pl', appears the following errors: [root@thor sbin]# smbldap-populate.pl Using builtin directory structure adding new entry: dc=maxwelleducacional,dc=com,dc=br failed to add entry: Insufficient

Hello Guys, I have configured samba & ldap as a domain controller before, but never on a redhat 9 system. I have updated samba & ldap as far as i can tell to the latest. Firstly I have a smaller issue (I think) I get this error when trying to restart ldap, as usual I have followed the samba howto; however it's not the documentation that is the problem more so an unusal problem or

Hi all, I had been running a Samba pdc using the standard tdbsam backend on CentOS 4.5 supporting 20+ WinXPsp2 workstations and a Win2k3 Terminal Server. This set up was running fine for arroung 18 months maybe more. The above system was built on ageing hardware that used to be a Win 2k server that died from OS corruption. Due to the expanding client needs there was good reason to replace

Hi there, this is my config, I have a CentOS 5.3 x86_64 full updated with Xen enabled with Samba 3.5.4 sernet RPMs. I have a virtual machine running Windows 2008 R2 Foundation running full virtualized on the same machine. When i tried to join the Windows 2008 to the domain i get this message: The following error ocurred attempting to join the domain "MYDOMAIN": A device attached

for my organaization i configured a Samba PDC, Samba-LDAP, with the following configuration my server is running fedora core 5, all my clients are windows XP, my problem is when i login to the domain through windows xp client each time the profile is refreshing, i want to save the profile in server and retrive it when i login again. please healp me out to get out of this problem, Regards,

I am using smbldap-tool from IDEALX on my Fedora Core 1 samba 3.0.5 PDC. I have been following their guide step by step and I am getting the following error message as I try to get SID. I have looked in google group, but I couldn't exactly find anybody who had the same problem as I do. Please help me if you can! [root@pdc smbldap-tools]# net getlocalsid [2004/06/17 10:53:57, 0]

hi, i have a problem whe i try to join windows XP or 2000 to my new samba+ldap PDC, i get the error USER COULD NOT BE FOUND,, or something like that (I have it in spanish), but whit the phpmyldapadmin i see that the machine appear, i'm joining in the machines with the user root, that i add with smbldap-populate -a root, and then with smbldap-usermod -u 0 root (i think that make the uid 0). I

hi, i have a problem whe i try to join windows XP or 2000 to my new samba+ldap PDC, i get the error USER COULD NOT BE FOUND,, or something like that (I have it in spanish), but whit the phpmyldapadmin i see that the machine appear, i'm joining in the machines with the user root, that i add with smbldap-populate -a root, and then with smbldap-usermod -u 0 root (i think that make the uid 0). I

Hi there, I've been going through the samba 3 by example book and have now successfully replaced my NT 4 PDC with a Linux machine running samba and an LDAP backend. Beautiful. However, I've run into a slight problem. When I try and add a new XP pro machine to my domain, I get the following message: A domain controller for the domain TEST could not be contacted. After doing some

I recently upgraded my samba pdc from version 3.0.9 to version 3.0.21b to try and fix a browse issue with Windows 2003 Server and linux samba servers. The browse issue was fixed, but now I am having problems adding machines to the network. I run slackware 10.0 linux with an openldap backend which has worked fine until now. I also upgraded the samba tools from idealx.org to the latest